Even in our era of yellow-ribbon patriotism and star-
spangled grandiosity, veterans' stories of heroic Muslim
translators and brave, dedicated local Iraqis and Afghans
were, sometimes, met with hollow stares and empty platitudes
in Washington. What we were telling these officials defied
their preconceived notions about vets, and Muslims, and how
vets of the terror wars were supposed to feel about Muslims. What we were telling them was that American security was
dependent on opening our doors to as many vetted refugees and
immigrants as possible, not barricading ourselves and saying,
``We're not that America anymore.'' What we were telling them
was that we knew, more than any other group of Americans,
what the hearts and souls of the Middle Eastern people were,
and that those hearts and souls were so very much like our
own. These are just some of the stories of what Donald Trump is doing to
people here in America, to Americans abroad, and people around the
world. This Executive order is illegal.
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Generalization about the hearts and souls of Middle Eastern people being like our own.
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