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Since President Donald Trump issued an order Friday temporarily restricting travel for immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries, members of Minnesota's delegation to Washington, D.C., have issued responses, many of which cross party lines.

While all of the Democrats in the delegation issued strong denunciations of the order, Republicans, too, joined a growing number of GOP lawmakers who've expressed concerns that the order goes too far.

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 on Wednesday, when rumors of Trump's impending order began to swirl: 

On Saturday, Klobuchar issued the following statement, noting in it that "Minnesota is home to a large refugee and immigrant population, including the largest Somali, Liberian, and Oromo communities and the second largest Hmong community in the United States.:"


U.S. Rep. Tim Walz, DFL-Mankato, who represents Minnesota's 1st district, its southernmost Congressional district, sent this statement in an email Sunday:


U.S. Rep. Jason Lewis, R-Woodbury, represents Minnesota's 2nd District, which covers the Twin Cities' southern suburbs. He released this statement Monday:


Minnesota's 3rd Congressional District covers the Twin Cities' western suburbs. U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen, R-Eden Prairie, 


U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum, DFL-St. Paul, who represents the eastern Twin Cities in Minnesota's 4th District, co-sponsored legislation Monday 

. She released the following statement Saturday:

U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, DFL-Minneapolis, who represents the city of Minneapolis and parts of Anoka, Ramsey and Hennepin counties in the state's 5th District, posted this response 

U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Delano, who represents suburbs north and west of Minneapolis and northwest to St. Cloud in Minnesota's 6th District, released this statement Monday:

Editor's note: Most of attackers tied to the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris 

were Belgian or French by citizenship or birth

, and not from any of the countries listed in Trump's travel ban. Authorities have not been able to identify the nationalities of others with suspected ties to the attacks. A month after the Paris attacks, Syed Rizwan Farook, who was born in the U.S., and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, who was in the U.S. on a K-1 visa and had a Pakistani passport, 

led a fatal attack at an office holiday party

U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson, DFL-Detroit Lakes, represents most of western Minnesota in the state's 7th District, from the Canadian border to just north of Iowa. He told MPR News Monday:

U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan, DFL-Crosby, represents Minnesota's 8th District, which covers most of the northeastern part of the state, from the Arrowhead west to the Brainerd lakes area and on south to the northern reaches of the Twin Cities metro area. He posted this message 

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Since the president's order Friday temporarily restricting travel for immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries, members of Minnesota's delegation to Washington, D.C., have issued responses, many of which cross party lines.

Trump's immigration order: Minnesota lawmakers respond

U.S. Senators Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar speak against Trump's order.

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US Senator Amy Klobuchar encourages the crowd.

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Rep. Betty McCollum, U.S. House District 4

Rep. Keith Ellison, U.S. House District 5

Rep. Collin Peterson, U.S. House District 7

Trump's immigration order: Minnesota lawmakers respond

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