Middle Eastern family that supported Dump now have their doubts after they were detained thanks to his order:
Trump-Supporting Christian Family Gets Deported; Bailed Out by Liberals
Syrian-American Sarmad Assali was a Trump supporter. Her family is Orthodox Christian, so they must have felt pretty safe from any potential Trump Muslim ban. Then last weekend happened. Suddenly, this Pennsylvania family was desperately trying to reach their US visa-carrying relatives after they had learned they were detained at the airport and forced back to the Middle East. Sarmand Assali's anger is vivid on this newscast where she kept saying "This is not human. It's just not human!"
In an interview, she explained how security guards at the airport asked her family members if they were Syrian. When they replied that they were, the guards literally said "Come with us."
Once identified as Syrian, her family members were treated horribly:
"They weren't even allowed to make a phone call and let us know what is going on," she says. "They had to beg the employees to call us, to let us know that they were being returned."
No translators. No legal counsel. They joined other people with proper US visas and green cards across the nation’s airports who were handcuffed and interrogated based solely on their nationality. I can understand Mrs. Assali's outrage, in which she (correctly) stated that all of this was "un-American.”
Cue the liberals.
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Protests broke out everywhere, and the ACLU of Pennsylvania got involved. A lawsuit for the Assali family was filed, and an anti-ban protest rally was held in support of the Assalis. Their Democratic mayor, senator, and governor all made statements condemning the ban harshly along with a personal message of support for the Assali family. Trump stooge Pat Toomey, their GOP Senator, didn't say any word about the Assalis and would only admit the ban was "explained improperly." (Yeah, because that's the problem with fascism—the rollout has to be smooth.)
You know the rest. Liberals fought the ban in the courts and got it blocked. Trump whined, but America cheered. The Assalis were able to get their relatives back to the US during the lull, and Governor Wolf was able to greet them personally when they landed. Not only that, the governor paid their very expensive airfare.
The relatives, along with Sarmad Assali, to their credit, expressed their sincere gratitude for all of the outpouring of love and support.
What I took note of note here is that even after Trump subjected her family to so much horror, Sarmad Assali still wouldn't outright reject him. Asked if she was still a Trump supporter, she said this:
"I am a supporter of the constitution of the United States, and the freedom that we have here," she says. "I don't know what [Trump's] going to do next or if I support what he's gonna do. I can't tell at this point."
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Trump-Supporting Christian Family Gets Deported; Bailed Out by Liberals
God punishes. Now thank a liberal for your freedom.