SCOTUS travel ban OK “an insult to our values”

The Supreme Court’s move on Monday to allow a limited version of president Trump’s travel ban to go into effect is “an insult to our values as a country of immigrants,” said Jaime Contreras, a Vice President for 32BJ SEIU, the largest property service workers union in the country, and a member of the Metro Washington Council’s Executive Board. Metro Council president Jackie Jeter urged “solidarity in the face of this un-American ban; we must stand together with our brothers and sisters.” Contreras warned that “As we have already witnessed at airports across the country, this ban will turn into a nightmare. Families will be divided; workers won’t be able to return to work; businesses will lose loyal employees and valuable customers,” and urged that the ban “should be permanently suspended and banished into distant memory.”