As someone who favors minimal restriction of the freedom of movement, I am greatly concerned about the President's recent executive order. But the most problematic part of the order, and the part to which I wish to react, is found in Section 5c, which prohibits entry to Syrian refugees “until such time as I have determined that sufficient changes have been made to the [United States Refugee Assistance Program] to ensure that admission of Syrian refugees is consistent with the national interest.” Although apologists may assert this rhetoric demonstrates reasonable caution, the wording really carries the same permanence as a normal piece of legislation. In other words, this section contains the one permanent policy in the executive order, and it is directed against the people group most desperate for a land to receive them. Though the United States has long been “a proud nation of immigrants,” as the President himself has said, we have long been suspicious of “the other.” Sin