Chuck Schumer’s tears shouldn’t be taken too seriously

I am beginning to suspect that the Democrats are not acting entirely in good faith.

Protests have been convened, and a national crisis declared, over the Trump administration’s promised expansion of Obama administration policies restricting some refugee inflows from the Middle East and identifying the residents of certain majority-Muslim countries as likely threats subject to heightened scrutiny. The Democrats are behaving as though President Trump had just commissioned a very large order of Zyklon B.

Funny what rises to command their attention.

As the Editors have pointed out here, both the list of targeted countries and the policy of using executive action to prohibit U.S. travel by members of suspect populations date from the Obama administration — they are not Trump-era innovations.