Junior U.S. Senator from Hawaii Mazie Hirono appeared on MSNBC yesterday to discuss the Democratic Party’s decision to obstruct votes on Trump’s cabinet nominees. However, during her interview, she was asked to discuss the controversial executive order. In addition to mischaracterizing it as a “Muslim ban,” Hirono compared the order to the worst of the Democratic Party’s legacy: slavery and Japanese internment.
Here’s an excerpt of her quote:
[E]very day that goes by, we’re not even into week two of the Trump presidency, and already he has issued an executive order that has raised concerns all over the world, including, of course, our own country, and that is his executive order on immigration that targets Muslims. And every time we go down that path to target a minority group, history proves us to be very, very wrong. So it happened with American Indians, slavery, with the Chinese Exclusion Act, with the Japanese internment.
Hirono was elected to the Senate in 2012. She was one of many Democrats who sat on the House floor following the Orlando massacre protesting the Republican Party’s refusal to compromise due process rights for Americans placed on arbitrary FBI watch lists.
Watch her statement below:
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