House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Nancy PelosiPelosi seeks to put pressure on GOP in COVID-19 relief battle On The Money: Pelosi says House will stay in session until stimulus deal is reached | GOP short of votes on Trump's controversial Fed pick | WTO rules Trump tariffs on Chinese goods illegal Democratic lawmakers call for an investigation into allegations of medical neglect at Georgia ICE facility MORE (D-Calif.) blasted the Trump administration for the president's recent executive order on immigration and refugees at a CNN town hall Tuesday.

“Your family is suffering because our president is reckless and his administration is incompetent,” she told a Yemeni refugee who said her mother could no longer come to the U.S. under the measure.

“The president has made us less safe with what he has done,” Pelosi added. "This isn’t the right thing to do, but it is red meat to some of the people he wants to continue to support him.”

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“They don’t want to call it a ban even though they called it a ban. But that’s what it is. The Statue of Liberty is in tears over what they have done," she said.

The California Democrat also took a question from a Lebanese Muslim-American real estate developer who asked how she would ensure national security, especially in terms of refugees.

“Refugees have the most stringent vetting of all newcomers to our country,” she said.

“We take an oath to support and defend the American people and the Constitution of the United States,” Pelosi said of Congress members. "It is our first responsibility."

“We have to be strong and smart, but we don’t have to be reckless and rash. [Trump] has no case, in my view, with the refugees.”

Trump signed an executive order Friday imposing a 90-day ban on citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from entering the U.S.

The measure also halts general refugee admissions into the U.S. for 120 days, and indefinitely suspends the acceptance of Syrian refugees.