How are you handling this?" I asked her.

"I am so angry and confused," she confided. "This is not the America I thought it was."

Madina, if it is any consolation, and I know it probably isn't, this isn't the America we people who were born here thought it was either.  Over the last several months America has become an angry, frightened, and shameless place.  Nonetheless, we will work tirelessly to return it to a friendly, proud, and confident place.