AX022_460A_9.JPG

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum on Sunday joined 14 attorneys generals in blasting Trump's executive order on immigration.

(Mike Zacchino/The Oregonian)

Fifteen attorneys general, including Ellen Rosenblum in Oregon, issued a joint statement Sunday condemning President Donald Trump's executive order banning U.S. legal permanent residents and visa-holders from seven Muslim-majority countries from returning to the United States for 90 days.

Rosenblum joined attorneys generals from Washington, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia and Washington, D.C., in issuing the statement, which called Trump's order "unconstitutional, un-American and unlawful."

"Religious liberty has been, and always will be, a bedrock principle of our country, and no president can change that truth," the AGs said in a statement. They went onto say they will "use all of the tools of our offices to fight this unconstitutional order and preserve our nation's national security and core values."

Rosenblum said in a statement on Saturday she is "appalled" by the immigration crackdown on non-American citizens from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen. She added that Oregon will use the "force of the rule of law" to protect and serve all people in Oregon.

-- The Oregonian