Former President Obama on Monday encouraged protesters who have been denouncing President Trump’s order suspending immigration from seven countries affected by terrorist movements, and rejected comparisons between that order and his own foreign policy.

“President Obama is heartened by the level of engagement taking place in communities around the country,” his spokesman, Kevin Lewis, said in a Monday statement.

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