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Democrat lawmakers and societal media critics are accusing President Donald Trump of rolling retired a "bigoted" question prohibition they accidental is riddled with "Islamophobia."
"This discriminatory policy, which limits ineligible immigration, not lone flies successful the look of what our state is expected to basal for, it volition beryllium harmful to our system and communities that trust connected the contributions of radical who travel to America from this wide scope of countries," Democratic Washington authorities Rep. Pramila Jayapal said successful a Wednesday connection posted to her societal media accounts. "Banning a full radical of radical due to the fact that you disagree with the operation oregon relation of their authorities not lone lays blasted successful the incorrect place, it creates a unsafe precedent."
Trump signed a proclamation Wednesday restricting question to the U.S. from a full of 19 countries. Twelve countries, specified arsenic Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia, Libya and Yemen, were deemed "very precocious risk" owed to violent activity, anemic oregon hostile governments, and precocious visa overstay rates. While 7 different countries, specified arsenic Venezuela, Cuba and Laos, faced partial restrictions nether the proclamation.
"The caller panic onslaught successful Boulder, Colorado, has underscored the utmost dangers posed to our state by the introduction of overseas nationals who are not decently vetted, arsenic good arsenic those who travel present arsenic impermanent visitors and overstay their visas," Trump said successful video posted Wednesday to societal media. "We don't privation them."
TRUMP BANS TRAVEL TO US FROM SEVERAL COUNTRIES TO BLOCK ‘DANGEROUS FOREIGN ACTORS’
President Donald Trump signed a proclamation Jun. 4, 2025, restricting question to the U.S. from a full of 19 countries. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)
"In the 21st century, we’ve seen 1 panic onslaught aft different carried retired by overseas visa overstayers from unsafe places each implicit the world," helium added. "Thanks to Biden’s open-door policies, contiguous determination are millions and millions of these illegals who should not beryllium successful our country."
Officials charged violent onslaught fishy Mohamed Sabry Soliman Monday with a hatred crime, attempted first-degree murder, crimes against at-risk adults/elderly and different charges aft helium allegedly threw Molotov cocktails astatine a pro-Israel group, "Run for Their Lives," successful Boulder, Colorado, Sunday. The Egyptian nationalist was surviving successful the United States illegally aft entering connected a enactment visa 2 years agone that has since expired, according to national officials.
Boulder firebomb onslaught and fishy Mohamed Sabry Soliman. (Storyful/KDVR)
TRUMP BANS TRAVEL TO US FROM SEVERAL COUNTRIES TO BLOCK ‘DANGEROUS FOREIGN ACTORS’
Trump's question regularisation announcement sparked wide backlash among Democratic lawmakers and critics connected societal media, who slammed Trump for allegedly promoting Islamophobia.
"Just now, Trump has re-issued his disgusting, bigoted, and Islamophobic question ban," Democratic California Rep. Judy Chu posted to X. "This goes against our halfway American values portion doing thing to marque america safer. We tin bash better, we indispensable bash better."
"The migration dictatorship conscionable announced a prohibition connected migration for 12 nationalities with 7 much facing draconian favoritism arsenic well. Horrible policies with nary justification," libertarian deliberation vessel Cato Institute Director of Immigration Studies David Bier posted to X Wednesday.
"We’ve seen this fearfulness amusement before," Democratic Arizona Rep. Yassamin Ansari posted Wednesday. "It’s not astir security. The question prohibition is cruel, racist, and un-American."
The U.S.' largest Muslim civilian rights group, the Council connected American Islamic Relations, besides released a connection denouncing the question bans.
"Automatically banning students, workers, tourists, and different citizens of these targeted nations from coming to the United States volition not marque our federation safer," Nihad Awad, the enforcement manager of CAIR, said successful a Wednesday statement. "Neither volition imposing vague ideological screening tests that the authorities tin easy maltreatment to prohibition immigrants based connected their spiritual individuality and governmental activism."
Senator Ed Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, slammed Trump's question restrictions. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
"Make nary mistake: Trump’s latest question prohibition volition NOT marque America safer," Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey posted to X. "We cannot proceed to let the Trump medication to constitute bigotry and hatred into U.S. migration policy."
"From his archetypal Muslim Ban, Trump’s question bans person ever betrayed of the ideals and values that inspired America’s Founders," Democratic Virginia Rep. Don Beyer posted to X. "Trump’s usage of prejudice and bigotry to barroom radical from entering the U.S. does not marque america safer, it conscionable divides america and weakens our planetary leadership."
The CEO of Oxfam America, which is an planetary radical of nongovernmental organizations that enactment to extremity hunger and poverty, besides issued a blistering effect to Trump's announcement.
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"By erstwhile again targeting individuals from Muslim-majority countries, countries with predominantly Black and brownish populations, and countries successful the midst of struggle and governmental instability, this enforcement bid deepens inequality and perpetuates harmful stereotypes, racist tropes, and spiritual intolerance," Oxfam America CEO Abby Maxman said successful a statement. "This argumentation is not astir nationalist information — it is astir sowing part and vilifying communities that are seeking information and accidental successful the United States."
President Donald Trump's question regularisation announcement sparked wide backlash among Democratic lawmakers and critics connected societal media. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
The White House defended that the caller proclamation is "commonsense" and targeted astatine countries that "lack due vetting, grounds precocious visa overstay rates, oregon neglect to stock individuality and menace information,' Fox Digital reported Wednesday.
"President Trump is fulfilling his committedness to support Americans from unsafe overseas actors that privation to travel to our state and origin america harm," White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson told Fox News Digital.
Trump came nether occurrence from liberals and activistic groups during his archetypal medication erstwhile helium signed an enforcement bid banning question and implementing "extreme vetting" for countries specified arsenic Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Libya successful January 2017. Critics of the enforcement bid derided it arsenic Trump's "Muslim ban."
"To beryllium clear, this is not a Muslim ban, arsenic the media is falsely reporting. This is not astir religion — this is astir panic and keeping our state safe," helium said successful a connection successful 2017.
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"There are implicit 40 antithetic countries worldwide that are bulk Muslim that are not affected by this order." Trump added astatine the time.
Fox News Digital's Jasmine Baehr, Brooke Singman and Patrick Ward contributed to this report.
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