The experts on the Immigration Policy Panel Discussion provided profound insights about the effects the recent executive orders have had and continue to have on countless individuals both within the United States’ borders and beyond them. Raza Rumi put forth particularly a powerful assessment of the message that Trump’s Executive Orders send to the people of Iraq. He explained how the United States has infiltrated Iraqi soil, formed a partnership with its country and its people to fight terrorism, and altered the lives of Iraqi citizens and Iraq’s history. Then, with these Executive Orders, the United States has denied assistance, refuge, and acceptance of the people they have been promising to help. America has involved itself in Iraq’s fate, and in denying Iraqi people the ability to enter the country, the United States sends an emotionally damaging and disheartening message to them. This message unjustly suggests that people who have fought terrorism alongside the United States are dangerous, untrustworthy, and unwelcome. Additionally, the panelists discussed how one consequence of the recent orders is that non-citizens of the United States can be detained and, in some cases, deported if they commit or have committed a crime. Hearing about this consequence, I began to think not only of the effect it could have on countless hard-working individuals and their families but also about what precedence this sets for defining what it means to be an upstanding American. Human beings err, and to suggest that an individual is unworthy of living, working, and raising a family in the United States because of one mistake is to deny the the principles of liberty and continual improvement that America champions. A mother with three children and two jobs, for example, should not lose the right to stay in the United States because she wavered for one moment from the inner strength and discipline constantly required to live her life. Also, seeing the Cornell community rally around this cause and its international students was an empowering experience. I am glad to be at an institution for “any person, any study…from any country.”