The United States immigration policy system is broken. Despite an outward statement of inclusion and an apparent deviation from a history of exclusive policies, the United States has not only continued racializing immigrants, but has now done so with a blatant disregard for human rights. With policies like the Muslim Ban and family separation, the United States purposefully targets groups seeking asylum or refugee status and those who are arguably the most vulnerable migrants. The definition guiding these policies has not changed since the Refugee Act of 1980 and the ceilings for refugees has remained the same since the Hart-Celler Act of 1965. Conditions in Central and South America are changing, while policies are not. According to the United Nations, since 2008 immigrants seeking asylum from Central America’s Northern Triangle, that is Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, has quintupled (Stillman 2018). These three countries boast some of the most dangerous cities in the world, yet people fleeing these situations are greeted in the U.S. by unchanging racism, and a commitment to continue the idea of white America. This begs the question, how can these policies from over forty years ago be expected to have transformed with the changing social, political, and economic climate of the United States? There is no clear, defined policy towards asylum seekers and refugees and no clear position when it comes to immigration in the United States. The U.S. has barred entry to legal residents and those with visas because of their country of origin, separated parents from their children, and weaved a history and a discourse that portrays immigrants as a danger not only to our sovereignty but also to our homogeneity as a society. The socio-cultural implications of immigration policies over the last 150 years has been the racialization and the categorization of immigrants as the ‘other.’ Doing this reinforces the United States’ own view of what being “American” truly is. Perhaps the most frightening aspect of the immigration policies in the United States is that their inherent racial nature has stayed constant since the late 1800s despite and growing and changing world, with many people in need of a safe space to seek asylum.