Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By simmons on February 11, 2017

On Feb. 8, the Anti-Defamation League on filed an amicus brief with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia supporting the Commonwealth of Virginias challenge to President Donald Trumps Executive Order on immigration and refugees.

The brief urges the court to issue a preliminary injunction, blocking implementation of the Executive Orders temporary ban on entry into the U.S. of people from seven majority-Muslim nations. The brief traces Americas history as a nation dedicated to ideals of equality, liberty and justice, and warns against repeating the shameful times in our past when America has turned against those ideals.

Doron Ezickson, ADL Washington DC Regional Director released the following statement:

When America has closed its doors, straying from core principles of equality and religious freedom, we were left to apologize later to individuals and their descendants who had suffered, or to the memories to those who had died and had no descendants, promising to learn from our mistakes and not to repeat them.

Our ideals as a country are now being tested again. It is our duty to remember these core values that propelled this nation of immigrants and to not sacrifice them in favor of prejudice and fear. America has always been at its best when it opens its doors to refugees and immigrants.

Asserting that implementation will cause irreparable harm, ADLs brief points to the tragedy of the vessel St. Louis, the Chinese Exclusion laws of the 1800s, and the internment of Japanese during World War II as three specific examples where, with respect to immigration, the nations has failed to live up to its ideals.

The law firm Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, PC prepared the brief on behalf of ADL and the law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP served as local counsel in Virginia.

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ADL Supports Virginia's Challenge To President's Executive Order On Immigration and Refugees - Alexandrianews.org

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