On June 26, the U.S. Supreme Court vindicated Donald Trump and his coterie by overriding two earlier judicial rejections of a proposed law to control entrance into the United States by travellers from some Muslim-majority countries. Most of the opposition dwells on legalistic questions, parsing the language of the order, and speculating on how it will be implemented. But there is more to the executive order than its language. Language is abstract; effects are real What does it feel like to be the object of a travel ban?