muslim countries from entering the u.s. for 90 days. critics and supporters are not always who you might expect. in our segment, america uncovered, we try to get away from the talking heads a ensee how it affects real people. martin savage did that for us for some chicago residents in a muslim suburb. reporter: two men faced an anger and ugliness they had never seen before, thanks to donald trump. some of my close friends, they turned their back on me. reporter: pakistani-americans and muslim. the backlash wasn t against their faith but their politics. i supported donald trump. reporter: rasheed campaigned for trump and got to meet him. they even went to trump s inauguration. all receiving scorn from fellow muslims. you re racist, you re anti-islamic, you re a brown guy
like i never knew you were a racist, you re anti-islamic, you re a traitor, brown guy trying to be white, brownie, slurs. reporter: the rhetoric about muslims angered many including salim sheikh, friends with rashid, attends the same mosque, and is a lifelong republican who vote for hillary clinton. i was quite concerned about some of mr. trump s statements at the time. total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states until our country s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. [ applause ] reporter: how could you support a man who seemed to be so anti-muslim? when the statement about the muslim ban came out, i was kind of offended to be very honest. then i took a deep breath and looked at the message behind the
recognize the common threads that they have. this has been this is the beginning of the nucleus of a shift towards the better. always we get better. we see moments where we go backwards. now i see us really as a community coming together and it s going to result in some good work. i have to focus on just a second, as somebody who lived i moved back to new york in the late 1980s when there was incredible racial tension here in new york and it was interethnic, jewish people, italians, koreans, all at each other in the city. you re now seeing the opposite of that, obviously. new york showing itself at its best. as the one person here at this table who knows donald trump personally, is this who this guy is? this sort of anti-muslim it s not for those of us who have experienced us in new york, this isn t what we re used to. five or six years ago i took donald to the great mosque. he made some statements that were anti-islamic.
come in, but if you were a christian, it was almost impossible. and the reason that was so unfair is that the everybody was persecuted this all fairness, but they were chopping off the heads of everybody, but more so the christians. and i thought it was very, very unfair. so we are going to help them. according to self-reported data collected by the state department, the pew research found that of the more than 12,000 refugees admitted in the fiscal year 2016, 99% are muslim and less than 1% are christian. syria is a 93% muslim nation. of all refugees admitted to the u.s. last year, nearly 39,000 were muslims, narrowly outpacing the christian refugees for the first time since 2006. over the course of the 15-year collected data. christians account for more than 400,000 refugees in the united states. 120,000 more than the number of muslims admitted. and comments from a top trump campaign adviser are drawing attention about a potential
illegal immigration and border security instead of always looking to started world war iii. and bob corker wrote, it is my hope that many of these programs will be reinstated. now mitch mcconnell is also weighing in, though he was less critical of other fellow lawmakers. and paul ryan said, i support the refugee resettlement program and it s time to re-evaluate and strengthen the visa vetting process. president trump is doing everything right to make sure he knows who is entering our country. i m not going to make a blanket statement on this effort. to extending the vetting process, i think that s in order. we need to bear in mind we don t have a religious test in this country, and we also need to remember that some of our best allies in the war against islamic terrorism are muslims.