Schumer Weeps: ‘This Executive Order Was Mean-Spirited and Un-American’

Flanked by newly arrived refugees — whom he called “newly arrived Americans” — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told a news conference on Sunday that President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily banning immigration from Muslim-majority countries is “bad for America, bad for our national security” and goes against “what America has always been about.” Schumer wept halfway through the news conference, after explaining that “this fight’s in my bones.”