NIAC’s legal counsel, Shayan Modarres, said in a statement: “Trump’s pathological pursuit of the Muslim Ban has reached a new low by targeting grandparents of American children.”
“There are one million Iranian Americans in the United States and many cannot return home to visit loved ones,” he said. “President Trump’s directive might as well pull children out of the arms of their grandparents who will no longer be able to visit for the sole reason that they are Iranian. The president is supposed to protect American families, not rip them apart.
”He said the “discriminatory” and “inhumane” policy “does nothing to add to America’s security”, and “only creates divisions by turning some Americans into second-class citizens simply because of their ancestry”.
