FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 5, 2025
Contact: Leila Miller | press@indivisible.org
Washington, D.C. — Today, Ezra Levin, Indivisible’s Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, released the following statement in response to the Trump Administration’s travel ban:
“Trump’s new Muslim Ban is a desperate attempt to rally his base the best way he knows how–by stoking fear and scapegoating immigrants with racist attacks.
“Make no mistake: this has nothing to do with national security. Trump is exploiting a tragedy in Boulder, Colorado–one with no connection to these countries–to block people from countries he’s been wanting to target. It is racism codified.
“He’s doing it because he thinks no one will stop him. The courts are packed. The GOP is silent. So he’s testing how far he can go, how fast. This is a trial balloon for even more extreme policies to come.
“This ban will have real human consequences. People will be hurt. We saw this in 2017–students blocked from school, families turned away at airports, refugees left in limbo.
“But we also saw something else in 2017: courage. People flooding airports in solidarity and shutting this racist policy down. We beat this once, and we’ll fight it again.”
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