Florida Democratic Congressman Maxwell Frost slammed Republican President Donald Trump’s travel ban.
“Trump’s travel ban is cruel, inhumane, and rooted in bigotry,” Orlando Congressman Maxwell Frost said. “It does nothing to make our communities safer, but it does vilify immigrants. It will devastate our immigrant families across this country–especially the thousands of Cuban, Venezuelan, and Haitian families who call Florida home.”
The Orlando Democrat reacted after President Trump and his administration’s sweeping travel ban targeting 12 countries – Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Congo Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen – and restricting travel from seven more – Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela.
“Trump and MAGA Republicans have no actual plan for immigration, they simply want to use cruelty as a political weapon to instill fear and distract the American people from their reckless agenda to hand over tax cuts to billionaires and rip away healthcare and food assistance from working families,” Democratic Rep. Frost continued. “It’s no coincidence that this announcement is coming out as Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ is proving to be wildly unpopular.”
President Trump said he must act to protect the national security and national interest of the United States and its people. In his proclamation, the President “stated that it is the policy of the United States to protect its citizens from aliens who intend to commit terrorist attacks, threaten our national security, espouse hateful ideology, or otherwise exploit the immigration laws for malevolent purposes.”
But Democrats like Rep. Maxwell Frost believe the travel ban is fear-mongering and have made it clear they will once again take on President Trump over this political issue.
“We won’t give in to this political fear-mongering,” the Central Florida Congressman added. “Just like during Trump’s first term, this ban will be met with legal challenges and fierce public outrage. I’ll continue to stand with our immigrant families and demand fairness, humanity, and dignity for every immigrant, asylum seeker, or refugee. That is what every person deserves—no matter where they are from.”
