By Itunuoluwa Adebo
The two Muslim members of Congress swiftly blasted President Donald Trump’s new version of the travel ban as still targeting Muslim-majority countries ,raising the critical issue which stalled the first ban in court.
“Here we go again…Muslim Ban 2.0 #NoBanNoWall,” tweeted Democratic Rep. Andre Carson of Indiana, the second Muslim elected to Congress and a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
Here we go again…Muslim Ban 2.0 #NoBanNoWall https://t.co/HTALRTKZYO
— André Carson (@RepAndreCarson) March 6, 2017
Also Rep. Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat and the first Muslim elected to Congress a decade ago, tweeted: “On Campaign, @realDonaldTrump called for ‘total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.’ Now, says ‘what Muslim Ban?'”
On Campaign, @realDonaldTrump called for "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” Now, says "what Muslim Ban?"
— Keith Ellison (@keithellison) March 6, 2017
He later reiterated his tweet to CNN, in a phone interview “It’s a Muslim ban,” he said. “It’s a revised one. It’s a lawyered up one. The man said he wanted a complete and total ban of Muslims. And then it gets struck down … and then he comes back a few days later with something else. He is trying to restrict access to the United States because of their religion. The people that it does ban are banned because it’s Muslim.”
Trump signed a new ban Monday morning that excludes Iraq from the list of targeted countries and also dropped troublesome language from the first ban that promised to promote Christian refugees, but fed into the successful legal argument that Trump had targeted Muslims. The new order bans immigration from six Muslim-majority countries: Iran, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Libya and Sudan.
