The last thing this country needs is more Wahhabis…

DAMMAM: An American Muslim congressman said work is under way to improve the visa process for Saudis traveling to the United States.

Keith Ellison, Democratic congressman for Minneapolis, also expressed confidence that the two nations’ long relationship would grow stronger in the coming years.

Ellison, who was acting as head of a trade delegation to Saudi Arabia, made the remarks on Wednesday during a visit to the Asharqia Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Dammam.

“My view is that since 9/11 some Americans haven’t really understood the strength of the relationship, so what we are trying to do is to reacquaint a whole new generation of American businesspeople with our long and time-tested mutually beneficial relationship.”

To those ends, Ellison said he is working to ease travel to the United States.

“One of the things that I have to take on as one of my own personal projects is to ameliorate this visa issue,” Ellison said.

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