Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) on Thursday criticized President Trump for authorizing a missile strike in Syria while at the same time not allowing refugees fleeing the country's civil war to come to the United States.

"So @POTUS cares enough about the Syrian people to launch 50 Tomahawks but not enough to let the victims of Assad find refuge & freedom here," Moulton tweeted following reports of the strike.

So @POTUS cares enough about the Syrian people to launch 50 Tomahawks but not enough to let the victims of Assad find refuge & freedom here. — Seth Moulton (@sethmoulton) April 7, 2017

The U.S. launched a missile strike against Syria Thursday night in response to chemical attack reportedly carried out by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad.

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Trump ordered the launch of more than 50 Tomahawk cruise missiles against an airfield in the country. The strike is a dramatic escalation of U.S. involvement in Syria and the first direct American assault on Assad’s government.

Trump has issued two executive orders that halted refugee resettlement in the U.S., but both have been put on hold by federal courts.