Democrat: Trump’s temporary immigrant ban will ‘get Americans killed’

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Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., argued Monday that President Trump’s executive order on immigration would ultimately “get Americans killed” because it would boost the notion that America is at war with Muslims, and serve as a recruiting tool for the Islamic State.

Murphy said on MSNBC that the Islamic State now is “on its heels,” and said one of its arguments for existing is that there is a war between Muslim and Christian people, between east and west, and we have now handed them a path to rebirth.”

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