If there is a Muslim registry, not only will I register as a Muslim, I will register twice. Let’s commit massive widespread Muslim fraud & really drive Trump and his cronies crazy!
-Bette Midler
I could not agree more. Never have I wanted to crash a system if such a system exists. This man is a maniac.
If my family were immigrating in 2017, we would’ve been separated. We came in parts because refugees don’t have the luxury of flying the entire family at once. My dad made the decision at 25-years-old to split us up and come here. He wanted a better life for his family that didn’t involve checkpoints at gunpoint.
I was too young to register the anxiety my parents had, and I only faintly remember my excitement about being reunited. I practiced for weeks on end the only English I knew, “One cup of juice please,” and I said it to the flight attendant with the pride that only a four-year-old can have. I remember sitting in that chair and being transported to this new world where my dad existed beyond a picture and a cologne insert in a magazine — he still wears Polo. But I remember feeling whole. I cannot imagine seeking refuge now, only to find out after years apart, that you’d be detained in an airport and sent back.
Oran Today 