The “ban that was so popular with the public at large” has the degree of support that it does because racists like you have poisoned the American public’s perception of immigrants in general and Muslims in particular. Most western countries welcome immigrants and refugees from Muslim countries. In recent years Canada has resettled tens of thousands of Syrian refugees, for instance, most of them hardworking families with young children, and so have dozens of other countries. The US has absolutely failed in its responsibilities in that regard.
But the worst thing I’m seeing these days is that Islamophobia promulgated by Trump and his fellow racists like yourself has empowered border officials to unprecedented levels of hostility against anyone who even looks like they might be Muslim. Such individuals have been increasingly denied entry and sometimes outright banned from the US even when they have Canadian passports which are pretty much an automatic entry guarantee for everyone else. To wit:
Immigration lawyers report Canadian Muslims being denied entry to U.S.
‘In all my years, I have never seen such a Kafkaesque scenario,’ lawyer says
Those denied entry include a prominent Guyana-born Toronto imam who serves as a chaplain with the Peel Regional Police and an Iraqi Turkmen community leader who has family members fighting ISIS in the Middle East.
The two men — who were denied entry at different border crossings and were not travelling together — are among at least six Canadian Muslim men who have been denied entry at the U.S. border over the last two weeks.
The men and their families, all of whom are Canadian citizens, were given little in the way of explanation by border officials for the decision to deem them inadmissible.
Neither Guyana nor Iraq are among the seven Muslim-majority countries subject to U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Muslim ban” executive order, which essentially blocks refugees and visitors from those countries from entering the U.S.
Both men were told to apply for visas at the U.S. consulate in Toronto before returning to the border to seek entry — an unusual process for people who hold Canadian passports.
Or this:
Canadian woman turned away from U.S. border after questions about religion, Trump
Or this:
Canadian woman en route to Vermont spa denied entry to U.S., told she needs immigrant visa
And there’s lots more. In the latter case the woman wasn’t even Muslim, but by golly she was brown and foreign-looking. This is what Trumpian racists like you have accomplished and what you’re enabling by claiming that Trump’s “Muslim ban” is a fine thing and very popular, and that’s what politicians must support in order to get elected. You’re a disgusting, ignorant, and shameless racist.