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Commentary: Trump's travel ban still ruining lives

Two years ago this month, on Jan. 27, 2017, I was at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid as a consular officer when President Donald Trump signed an executive order he labeled: "Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States." It quickly became known as the travel ban.

The order - with its misspellings and misstatements of facts and law - was an outrage to most of us who would have to enforce it overseas. Immediately, State Department officials organized against it. Thousands of us

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