3 Louisiana congressmen back Syrian missile strikes and refugee ban

Syria has been wracked by civil war since 2011 and its president, Bashar al-Assad, pilloried by some for terrorizing his own people. More than 5.5 million have fled the country, many of them seeking asylum in the U.S.

But a week after taking office in 2017, Trump suspended all Syrian refugee resettlement in the U.S., as well as those of people from six other Muslim countries He's twice modified the order, and the Supreme Court is considering a challenge to it.

On April 14, the Trump administration joined the United Kingdom and France in launching missiles to destroy sites linked to the Syrian government's chemical weapons, further roiling the country.

Six days later, Think Progress, a website of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, posted a story headlined "The 111 hypocrites that backed Trump's refugee ban and strikes on Syria." In that number were Scalise, Abraham and Higgins.

"The left refuses to give President Trump any credit, and that post is the latest attempt from liberals in the media to take shots at a very successful mission in Syria," Abraham said. "There is absolutely nothing hypocritical about punishing a tyrant like Assad for gassing his own people while holding legitimate concerns about whether refugees from the area could be adequately vetted for security risks."

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