PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Members of Rhode Island’s all-Democratic congressional delegation are condemning Republican President Donald Trump’s executive order that suspends the nation’s refugee program for four months and indefinitely bars Syrians from entering the country.
U.S. Rep. David Cicilline says the order, which was signed Friday, “is an outright betrayal of the values that define our nation” that allows “fear and hysteria to prevail over facts and reason.”
U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin says it’s “shameful” that Trump is extinguishing a beacon of hope for the less fortunate.
Cicilline says there’s already strict vetting for refugees. “And it works,” he says. “Not a single Syrian refugee has been convicted of a terrorism-related offense in the United States.”
Trump’s order also temporarily blocks immigration from countries deemed to have terrorism concerns.
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