Trump Blames Airport Chaos on Delta Computer Problem, Not His Travel Ban
Trump partially blamed the protesters for causing airport delays, while mocking ‘the tears Schumer.
Trump on Monday suggested that Schumer was acting and crying “fake tears” for the cameras. I don’t see him as crier.
But Schumer made it clear he’s not backing down from Trump anytime soon. Chuck Schumer said he will ask for a repeal of Trump’s hugely unpopular travel ban today, saying “This is a blanket ban”.
However, the chaos started on Saturday as protesters packed some of the country’s major airports to demonstrate against the executive order.
However, Schumer noted several Republican lawmakers have broken ranks and denounced Trump’s order.
Trump’s order, which also halts all refugee admissions for 120 days, does not address homegrown extremists already in America. The goal of the order, they say, is to improve screening of travelers to the United States to ensure terrorists can not sneak in. Donnelly ruled that enforcing the ban by sending the travelers home could cause them “irreparable harm,” The New York Times reports, and she was praised for having “a firm moral compass”.
US officials say several hundred diplomats have signed on. The judge’s ruling only stopped the government from deporting the individuals back to their countries.
This doesn’t mean that all or even majority would support a Dem effort to defund it, or that such an effort would have any real chance at passing, presuming it even gets a vote at all.
Trump’s ban, a feature of his presidential campaign, resulted in mass confusion at airports as customs and immigration officers attempted to sort through who could _ and who could not _ enter the US from the seven named countries.
Trump issued an executive order Friday barring indefinitely immigration from Syria and for at least 90 days from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
According to President Trump though the ban had nothing to do with the airport problems.
Murphy noted that the Senate quickly confirmed James Mattis, the widely respected former Marine general, to serve as defense secretary, “because he assured us that he was going to argue against the very ban he watched Trump sign. The orders make us less humanitarian, less safe, less American”, Schumer said.
The President alo took to Twitter to problems at airports on a Delta computer outrage and “the tears of Senator Schumer”. The Senate is voting Monday to limit debate to 30 hours, and Democrats plan to use every minute they can.