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Tim Kaine: “One of President Trump's first actions when he became…”

Featuring: Tim Kaine, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Virginia

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Trump lies: Immigrants make this country better, not worse.

Published | Video Starts at 03:40

So most of them are bad. Drug addicts, criminals, rapists but. But some are good people. That's the very essence of bigotry and discrimination. And we know that to be a lie. One of President Trump's first actions when he became president in 2017 was to impose a ban on people entering the country if they were coming from countries that were predominantly Muslim in nature. It wasn't based on the vetting of an individual to determine if they posed a problem. If you're a Muslim, if you come from a country that was predominantly Muslim, you were banned. (03:40–03:49)

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Asserts that one of Trump's first actions as president was a travel ban targeting predominantly Muslim countries.

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