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Donald Trump attacked Democrats on Capitol Hill after they passed the Ban Prohibition Act, which would repeal his ban on travel to various Muslim-majority countries, claiming the party has become “stone cold left – Venezuela on steroids ! “
“Democrats in the House are trying to undo my great victory in the Travel Ban Act,” wrote the President in a tweet on Saturday morning, “which successfully keeps very bad and dangerous people out of our great country. “
“It went through the party lines,” he said. “Hopefully, he’ll be DEAD in the Senate! Democrats have gone left of Stone Cold – Venezuela on steroids!”
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The Prohibition Act, which was not expected to receive a vote in the Republican-led Senate, served primarily as a rejection of the President’s efforts to impose travel restrictions on Muslim-majority countries, a campaign promise he made in 2016. , long before the coronavirus. pandemic.
Still, lawmakers said the measure, which was passed mainly along party lines, would put the Democratic-led House of Representatives on the “right side of history” after they said the White House created the ban. of religious discrimination.
Congresswoman Judy Chu (D-CA), who sponsored the Prohibition Prohibition Act, said in a statement after the bill passed: “Today, almost three and a half years after President Trump issued his first Muslim ban, the House of Representatives voted to put us on the right side of history by repealing it entirely. “
She added: “This prohibition never had anything to do with national security; was always driven by prejudice. ”
Republicans who defended the president’s travel restrictions criticized the Prohibition Act, including Andy Biggs of Arizona, who said: “This is not a Muslim ban. This is a legitimate travel restriction implemented for the security of this nation. “
Trump’s decision to implement travel restrictions in several Muslim-majority nations faced legal challenges and a major pullback from American society, with massive protests organized at airports across the country during the first year in office of the president.
The administration’s current travel restrictions applied to Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. Venezuela and North Korea were later added to the list. Iraq was removed from an initial group of countries to be included in the executive order.
The latest restrictions also suspend visas for Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria and Myanmar.
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