On the 30th of this month, Obama in a statement by his spokesperson, Kelvin Harris, said Trump's immigration policy was discriminatory.
"The (former) President fundamentally disagrees with the notion of discriminating against individuals because of their faith or religion." CNN qouted Lewis as saying.
Lewis added that Obama perceived the protests as "exactly what we exepect to see when American values are at stake."
This is the first time Obama, who abdicated power to Trump 10 days ago,
would criticise the current President, violating an un-written rule that former Presidents should refrain from evaluating the current White House occupant.
On Friday, Trump had banned seven Muslims majority countries from entering the United States for the next 90 days and temporarily terminated the ingress of all refugees.
Trump's order temporarily banned immigration from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia and indefinitely stopped Syrian refugees from coming to the United States.
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