(Fox) House Democrats sought to poke holes in the Trump administration’s so-called travel ban during a Tuesday hearing on Capitol Hill, alleging that a waiver process for allowing individuals from restricted countries to obtain visas is nothing but a “sham.”
While an official from the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs insisted there is nothing wrong with the waiver process, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., challenged that assertion by raising allegations made by former officials.
“Former consular officer Christopher Richards, who resigned in protest of the Muslim ban, said in an op-ed that the consular officers were not able to issue waivers on their own, that they had to get approval from the State Department,” Omar said to Edward Ramotowski, deputy assistant secretary for visa services. “Would that be you? Do you give that approval?”
