President Donald Trump's controversial immigration ban has received the backing of Boston Marathon bombing survivor Marc Fucarile, Fox25 in Boston reports.
"The president's job to protect the people of the United States of America and I feel that's what he's doing," said Fucarile, who lost a leg when the bombs went off at the marathon in 2013. "Terrorism is a problem and something needs to be done if we can't find out who's coming into this country, it's going to be a Trojan horse and they're going to come in, along with all the other refugees."
Although Trump's ban does not specifically target Muslims, it does bar immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries for 90 days, as well as freezing the refugee program for 120 days and banning any future refugees from Syria indefinitely.
The marathon bombers, who were Moslem brothers born in Kyrgyzstan, arrived in the U.S. as children with their family on a travel visa and were allowed to stay after seeking asylum.
Asked specifically about the fact that those kept out are Muslim, Fucarile told Fox25: "If that's who needs to be targeted, that's who needs to be targeted. They [Muslim extremists] don't like our ways, they don't agree with us, and they think it's okay to kill us."
However, other terror victims oppose Trump's policy, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Scott Weisberg, a doctor who was also injured in the Boston Marathon attack and has been forced to cut back his practice since, said he thinks "something is needed but I'm not sure that this is the exact solution."
He pointed out that the terrorists weren't even from one of the seven countries targeted in Trump's ban and that the policy doesn't address what he says is the real problem, people already in the U.S. who are radicalized by online Islamic State propaganda.
Tiara Parker, who survived the Orlando nightclub massacre, made a similar point about the Muslim terrorist in that attack, who was born and raised in the U.S. Parker added that she feared the United States could become the target of more anger, because the policy keeps refugees from seeing their families.
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