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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) promised Monday to revise and reintroduce a bill that took aim at Donald Trump's original Muslim ban in order to block Trump's 2.0 version of the ban. Murphy called the new ban, which removed Iraq from the initial list of majority-Muslim countries, "recruitment gold," writes Jordain Carney.
"Our enemies’ dream is to paint a picture of global war between Islam and the West, and today's travel ban plays right into their hands. I will immediately revise and re-introduce my bill to block its implementation," Murphy said in a statement. [...]
Murphy, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, introduced legislation earlier this year that would undermine the original executive order, which targeted Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia. The bill would withhold funding to keep the administration from enforcing the order. [...]
"ISIS is losing on the battlefield, but President Trump just handed a big victory to our adversaries in the long-term fight against violent extremism," he said.
Murphy is unlikely to find 12 Republican senators to join with him in legislatively blocking the new ban, but his promise was part of a larger sphere of responses that quickly rejected Trump’s new effort to block Muslims from the country. The ACLU immediately pledged to challenge the new ban in court.