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President Donald Trump on Monday mocked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer(D-N.Y.) for shedding tears over the plight of refugees.

I dont see him as a crier, Trump said of Schumer, and asked whether the senator had hired an acting coach.

Theres about a 5 percent chance that it was real, but I think they were fake tears, he said ahead of a meeting with small business leaders at the White House.

Standing alongside several refugees in New York City on Sunday, Schumer vowed to fight Trumps executive order that temporarily blocked the entry of all refugees, indefinitely blocked Syrian refugees and imposed a ban on travelers coming from several Muslim-majority countries.

This order was mean-spirited and un-American, the senator said as he fought back tears.

The president wants people to believe that everyones a terrorist or a criminal whos an immigrant. Its not fair and its not right, he added.

A spokesman for the New York senator declined to take the bait.

We are not going to dignify that with a response, Matt House, communications director for Schumer, told HuffPost.

Trump has hurled personal insults at Schumer before. Earlier this month, the president referred to the senator as head clown amid the fight to repeal Obamacare.

In aninterview with HuffPosts Amanda Terkel, Schumer said he believed it was a mistake to go toe-to-toe with Trump in a similar fashion.

I think you stick with your values and the merits, he said, because I think that you go down to his level [with name-calling]. He loves that level of just name-calling. And then the focus is off the bad things hes doing to America.

This article has been updated with comment from Schumers office.

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Donald Trump Accuses Chuck Schumer Of Shedding 'Fake Tears' Over Refugees - Huffington Post

It took little more than a week in office for President Donald Trump to thrust the nation to the brink of a constitutional crisis.

Late Friday, Trump issued an executive order forbidding millions of refugees, hundreds of thousands of visitors and 500,000 legal immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States. Over the following 48 hours, massive protests erupted in cities and airports nationwide, courts temporarily blocked major parts of the order, the administration defied the courts and Democrats called for an investigation into the administrations defiance. As the weekend drew to a close, an anonymous White House official proclaimed the whole episode a massive success story.

The federal courts thought otherwise. On Saturday night, a judge in Brooklyn ordered the Trump administration to stop deporting refugees and visitors immigration authorities had previously cleared to enter the country. Two judges in Massachusetts ordered that travelers who were legally authorized to be in the United States shouldnt be detained at or deported from Logan International Airport for a period of seven days. A judge in Seattle halted the deportation of two travelers. And a judge in Virginia issued an order requiring the administration to allow lawyers access to lawful permanent residents also known as green card holders whom Customs and Border Protection agents had detained at Dulles International Airport on Trumps instructions.

When federal judges rule, government officials up to and including the president are supposed to obey or risk being held in contempt of court. A government that ignored the courts would be able to violate the law and the Constitution at will. So for more than two centuries, the nations courts have had the last word on whats legal and constitutional and what is not. We are and will remain in compliance with judicial orders, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement Sunday evening.

But there was little indication that the Trump administration has fully complied with the court orders or that Trumps inner circle even believed the administration had to do so.

Saturdays ruling does not undercut the presidents executive order, a senior White House official told NBC News midday Sunday in reference to the Brooklyn judges decision. All stopped visas will remain stopped. All halted admissions will remain halted. All restricted travel will remain prohibited.

CBP officials refused throughout the weekend to obey the Virginia judges order to allow lawyers access to detainees at Dulles. Its not going to happen, they told attorneys who hoped to represent the detained people. When Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) showed up at the airport shortly before midnight Saturday, CBP officials refused to meet with him, according to reporting by The Daily Beasts Betsy Woodruff.

I am now of the belief that though this was issued by the judicial branch, that it was violated tonight, Booker said, brandishing the order. And so one of the things I will be doing is fighting to make sure that the executive branch abides by the law as it was issued in this state and around the nation. This will be an ongoing battle... I believe its a constitutional crisis, where the executive branch is not abiding by the law.

The next morning, four Democratic members of the House of Representatives went to the airport and tried and failed to convince CBP to obey the order.

We have a constitutional crisis today, Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.), one of the four House members who went to the airport, tweeted Sunday.

I am deeply disappointed by what happened at Dulles and how the order was ignored, Booker added later. There must be accountability for this.

Detentions continued in California, too, according to the states junior senator.

I have received reports from attorneys in CA that agents are continuing to deny or delay entry to America to visa holders and others, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) tweeted shortly before 8 p.m. Sunday. This violates the federal court orders and it is imperative [Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly] ensures all staff are notified and comply with the law.

On Sunday night, Sens. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Richard Durbin (Ill.), the second-highest-ranking Democrat in the Senate, sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Securitys inspector general requesting an investigation into the agencys handling of Trumps executive order and response to the court rulings. The senators asked the IG to figure out whether any CBP officers disobeyed court orders, what they did, and who ordered them to do it.

The United States Constitution means little if law enforcement agents disregard it, Duckworth and Durbin wrote. The American people are relying on your independent investigators to serve as a check against a powerful law enforcement agency that may be ...operating in violation of the law.

The weekends events had all the makings of a constitutional crisis, two law professors told HuffPost.

Disobeying a court order is a big deal for any government official federal, state, local, executive, legislative, whatever, said Abner Greene, a law professor at Fordham University. Obedience to specific court orders is what keeps us from being a banana republic or fascist dictatorship. Thats a really big deal.

The chaos doesnt just risk a constitutional crisis, argued Michael Dorf, a professor at Cornell Law School. Assuming the report is accurate, it creates one. If the Trump administration believes that the court orders limiting the presidents executive order are unlawful, it can file an emergency appeal, Dorf noted. But outright defiance, he added, can only be deemed disrespect for the rule of law.

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