Trump's executive order is far from perfect. But in making the distinction between the hunters and the hunted and siding with the latter against the former, Trump is showing that he is not a bigot
Is US President Donald Trump the new Franklin Delano Roosevelt? Does his immigration policy mimic Roosevelt's by adopting a callous, bigoted position on would-be asylum seekers from the Muslim world?
At a press conference on June 5, 1940, Roosevelt gave an unspeakably cynical justification for his administration's refusal to permit the desperate Jews of Nazi Germany to enter the US.
In Roosevelt's words, "Among the refugees [from Germany], there are some spies... And not all of them are voluntary spies--it is rather a horrible story but in some of the other countries that refugees out of Germany have gone to, especially Jewish refugees, they found a number of definitely proven spies."