Families of 9/11 Victims Denounce Immigration Ban
Katie Reilly
3:40 PM EST
Family members of 9/11 victims gathered in lower Manhattan on Thursday morning, blocks away from the World Trade Center, to call on President Trump to stop using the attacks to defend his recent immigration ban.
"We’re here to say, Stop using our loved ones to justify the same type of hatred that killed them," said Terry McGovern, whose mother died in the Sept. 11 attacks.
McGovern helped organize Thursday's rally in Battery Park after she saw 9/11 invoked in Trump's executive order, which temporarily banned immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries. Trump had said the immigration ban was necessary to prevent similar attacks from taking place in the future, but none of the Sept. 11 hijackers came from the seven countries affected by his order ...
http://time.com/4673559/911-families-trump-immigration-protest/