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who was born in Pakistan but lived in Saudi Arabia most of her life  has become the de facto justification for the alleged culpability of an entire nation in terrorist plots against the United States.the lesson here is simple: the existence of this one terrorist from a country of 180 million is proof that all the rest are all terrorists until proven innocent.

a macabre and dystopian reality was unleashed on thousands of Muslims under hostile scrutiny at those glass boxes.I know this mixture of apprehension and hope because it recurs amid the departure from rationality that attends the act of border crossing.Rightwing American populist leaders rage against globalization and demand that manufacturing jobs must return.

but you are still unlucky by birth—and you are now also subject to humiliation and detention by the whim and fiat of an American president even if you never broke the law.critics of the ban have been eager to stress that terrorists do not come from the seven countries; but they do come from Pakistan.

it would seem to be a matter of simple fairness to extend the same empathy to millions of others whose skills also do not match the economies of the countries where they were born.

And alongside these accounts came many an earnest plea for more privileged Americans to show greater empathy toward this hypothetical everyman—a tragic collateral casualty of recent economic history.famine and plague and natural disaster claim their casualties indiscriminately without regard to race.

Many of our leading political and media lights have come together over the past three days to denounce this order as contrary to American values and refugee policy.Yet even then our failure to allow visas for thousands of Jewish refugees trying to flee Europe as Hitlers intentions became unavoidably clear is a source of national shame.

it read as a hard stop not only to the issuance of new immigrant and non-immigrant visas from a handful of majority-Muslim nations—citizens of which were collectively responsible for not a single instance of terrorism on American soil—but to the admission of current non-immigrant visa holders.which employ the resources of private charities to resettle refugees is one of our countrys greatest humanitarian success stories.