"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty..."

Sound familiar? That is the preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America. The statement that establishes this country's goal of posterity, peace, and justice. To act against this nation's values, is to attack and ridicule what this nation was built upon. The United States of America is the home of the free and the land of the brave; a haven for the prejudiced and the victimized.

The United States of America was built upon religious and discriminated refugees of all race and color. No one should ever forget that. America was never any one race's to claim. America was never anyone's property. America was and will always be a sanctuary for the abused.

Unfortunately, it seems as if half the nation has forgotten that within the past years. Discrimination runs rampant through these once-idealized lands, and with a President implying a prejudice against other races, these attacks on others become more encouraged. Golden gates, welcoming green statues - they no longer stand with arms wide open for the beaten. They stand locked or crossed; stoic and calloused. The immigrant of today compared to the immigrant of the past, sees only a ghost of the light of the freedom offered back then.

And what does that they about this immigrant nation? Nothing but hypocrisy. Almost every single ethnicity that has entered this country had faced some initial discrimination. Whether it be the Irish or the Chinese, or even the just the English pilgrims ostracized for their religion - everyone who has ever stepped foot on this land had done so because they were closed out from either the opportunity or the right to practice their own religion.

Fear and anger are two of the most fueling emotions out there. They inspire the most taboo thoughts and bring out the worst vices in humans. They cloud minds which are already submerged in chaotic environments. What is wrong can seem right. An act of precaution, such as a ban, can seem drastic but necessary. But when the white starts turning gray, it's never too difficult to tread into the black afterwards.

President Trump dropped an abrupt ban on immigration from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen. Was it a veiled discriminatory attack on Muslims as a whole? Perhaps, but statistics cannot be ignored; the surge of refugees from that area (and others like Afghanistan, which is surprisingly absent from the ban list) are, in general, encumbering screening processes doubtlessly placed to see if any terrorist is posing as a victim.

So while Trump may have placed the ban based on more dubious incentives, there is no doubt that the way he had gone about it could have been better. America is the land of the immigrants, and if it wants to protect its own, then the least it could do is address the issue in more amiable terms. While the comparison may be a stretch - Ellis Island did exist as an immigrant inspection station. Rather than seal away, or even ban, these immigrants, could America not take a leaf out of the history book and repurpose buildings for the same purpose again rather than use deportation and bans as a solution to a problem, that will not halt with just a ban either way?