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Statement

Moms Group on Trump’s Expanded ‘Muslim Ban’ Travel Order

September 25, 2017
Immigration

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Last night, President Donald Trump signed a new executive order indefinitely banning almost all travel to the United States from seven countries. Starting next month, most citizens of Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Chad and North Korea will be banned from entering the United States. Additionally, certain citizens of Iraq and Venezuela will face restrictions when planning to travel to the United States.
 
In reaction to the administration’s expanded Travel Ban order following the 90 days of review period, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, CEO and Executive Director of MomsRising, a national online and on-the-ground organization of more than 1 million mothers and their families, issued the following statement:
 
“The fact remains that Trump’s expanded travel ban is a discriminatory attack targeting Muslims. Six of the ban’s target countries are Muslim-majority nations, and the addition of North Korea and government officials from Venezuela does not cancel out the deep anti-Muslim spirit of this policy. 
 
“This inhumane and Islamophobic policy isn’t based on valid security concerns, but rather is rooted in prejudice that is antithetical to our nation’s values. Time will tell the scope of the damage this ban will cause—from tearing families apart to destroying young people’s dream of studying in the United States and eroding America’s respect among the rest of the world. 
 
“We reject these divisive and racist policies. As mothers, we teach our children to be inclusive, not to bully, and to treat other people as they would like to be treated. It is a shame that the leader of the free world is exposing our children to such ideologically warped views as those promulgated by the expanded travel ban. 
 
“To be clear: This policy is about human rights abuses in the name of immigration policy, and will be remembered as a dark chapter in American history. This isn't the America we want for our children, and we won’t stand for it.”
 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.