As a US diplomat, I helped circumvent Trump’s Muslim ban – then realised I was part of the problem
The Guardian - 2024-04-15T09:00:01.000Z

I quit when it sank in that pushing back at my routine embassy job felt less like resistance than complicityWhen I began working as a consular officer at the US embassy in Ankara, Turkey, I was at the beginning of what was supposed to be a 20-year diplomatic career. Maybe I didn’t love all of US foreign policy, but in my routine visa assignment I was deeply committed to treating everybody I interviewed fairly and playing my part in facilitating the American immigrant dream. Then, on 27 June... Read this story