“Full
Frontal With Samantha Bee”/TBS; YouTube

Samantha Bee focused on the refugees affected by President Donald
Trump’s controversial travel ban and dared him to admit that it’s
a discriminatory ban on Muslims.

“I will shut up about immigrants now, because I want to talk
about refugees. Not the same thing,” Bee said on Wednesday’s
episode of TBS’s “Full Frontal.” “Immigrants are people who leave
their country hoping for a better life. Refugees are people who
flee their country hoping just to stay alive. Also, refugees
don’t get to pick where they go — they wait patiently for any
country to take them, kind of like how some people spent prom
season.”

While Trump’s executive
order temporarily blocked travelers
from entering the US from seven predominately Muslim
countries, it also banned all refugees from entering for the
following 120 days and banned all Syrian refugees
indefinitely.

In order to express the full consequences of the US refusing to
admit refugees, Bee took us back to World War II and President
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s denial of Jewish refugees fleeing
Nazi-occupied Europe. Coincidentally, Roosevelt and Trump have
used the same reasoning to defend their refugee bans: a
desire to avoid a “Trojan horse” — enemies of the US who gain
entry as refugees.

“F— you, F.D.R., they weren’t Trojans or Nazis, they were
Jewish refugees,” Bee said. “And they definitely did have
something to fear besides fear itself… The way America welcomed
the last non-Christian war refugees to knock at our door was one
of the most shameful stains on our history, which is saying a
lot.” 

Bee said she wouldn’t harp on last week’s controversy
over the White House statement on Holocaust
Remembrance Day that didn’t mention the Jewish people, a
complaint it said was “nitpicking.”

“I’m talking to people who fraud-whistle the Holocaust,” Bee
said. “Fine, I won’t mention this refugee ban is immoral,
embarrassing, and inhuman. I’ll just point out that it is the act
of a giant p—-.”

She then called on Trump to be brave enough to admit that the
refugee ban is a strike against Muslims, not potential
terrorists.

“You want a Muslim ban? We know you do,” Bee said. “So say it
already, Mr. Straight-talker. Slap your meat on the table and
face the legal consequences like a man. Don’t puss around by
banning territories that just happen to be Muslim… Own your
pointless cruelty. That is why America voted for you, except for
the majority of Americans who didn’t.”

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