Bronx, N.Y. – Last Friday afternoon, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order effectively barring all refugee admissions for the next 120 days and blocking citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States for the next 90 days. These countries include Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.

This ban has thrown immigration services, and airports into disarray as they scramble to implement the order and figure out how it applies to scores of people from the listed countries traveling into and out of the United States not to mention the refugees seeking Asylum from war and persecution.

“There was a time in our history when Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis were turned away. It was Un-American to refuse people in need back then, and it’s Un-American to do so now. In this country, we welcome refugees and we don’t discriminate based on religious backgrounds. Barring entry to this country from Muslim-majority countries is bad policy and it lends credence to the false narrative purported by extremists that America wishes to persecute Islam,” said Assemblyman Dinowitz.

Federal Judges have already blocked part of the order in rulings that said the government could not remove refugees and others with valid visas and which the Department of Homeland Security has agreed to comply with.