The discussion above is talking about general immigration laws and attitudes, not the travel ban in particular.
That said, my analogy is completely appropriate - and necessary - as there seems to be many who are unable to empathize with people who are scared for their safety, whether justly or unjustly paranoid.
In regards to security and paranoia, let me give an analogy you may be more sympathetic to.
Think of a woman who has been raped. It only happened once, but it was traumatic for her. It took her a while to begin going out to bars again, but she has finally worked up the courage to go out with her friends on Friday nights. But she is always looking over her shoulder, constantly in fear of another attack.
Would you dismiss this woman's paranoia, as you dismiss the paranoia of a nation which lost nearly 3,000 of its citizens in an attack by an organization dedicated to the extermination of the US and its people?
You think all the workers brought to the US on programs like H1-B are "world class"? They are generally good people and good employees, but for the most part they are operating at a level many US workers are capable of working at, with skills US workers possess. Companies bring them over because they know they can get away with paying them less.
Global competition among labor for work is one of the driving forces behind the erosion of the middle class.
Lots of ugly and false assumptions you're making in this comment, but I'll bite.
Billions of people want to come to the US. Many more than want to go to, say, Argentina. So our immigration laws need to be a bit more strict to restrict what could be a flood of immigrants to a more manageable flow. This is necessary for cultural and economic reasons, to promote unity and stability, which make America great.
Second, we are understandably paranoid about security, which also leads us to more restrictive immigration laws.
That said, nearly a million people immigrate into the US each year. Most Americans like legal immigrants contrary to what propoganda you may read or hear, considering we are a nation of immigrants.
About 1,000,000 people legally immigrate to the US each year. That's hardly indicative of a "fucked up" system.
Sure there are 7 billion people in the world outside of the US, but we can't just open our borders and let everyone come in. It would be chaos and destroy the country and all the reasons for coming in the first place.
That said, my analogy is completely appropriate - and necessary - as there seems to be many who are unable to empathize with people who are scared for their safety, whether justly or unjustly paranoid.