Pennsylvania officials are speaking out about President Donald Trump’s travel ban.
The executive order Trump signed on Friday temporarily bans citizens from seven countries (Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen) from entering the country for 90 days. It also suspends the entry of refugees into the country for 120 days.
Government officials began to respond to the order over the weekend as protests took place at airports across the country.
U.S. Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania spoke out on Twitter, calling the order “deeply inconsistent with the country’s values” and saying it “won’t make our nation safer.”
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf met Sunday with the Assali family, whose family members are legal immigrants from Syria who were traveling to their new home in Allentown yesterday, but were detained and sent back to the Middle East following President Trump’s executive order, according to the governor.
“As a Pennsylvanian and an American, this is not who we are. Pennsylvania is a place of welcome,” Gov. Wolf said.
Casey was at the Philadelphia International Airport with Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf over the weekend to speak to those who had been detained and their lawyers.
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