United States / Visa Ban - The Bureaucratic Self Sorts Bodies by National Fantasy, Proving the Illusion of Universal Rights

Event Baseline: A US federal judge ruled that a Trump administration policy suspending immigrant visa processing for nationals of 75 countries was illegal and exceeded legal authority.

The state reduced a human being to a passport. It assumed that a person born across an imaginary line is a threat. This is the mechanical operation of the self: categorize, exclude, dehumanize. The judge called it illegal, but the law itself is a projection of the same fragmented mind. The border is a wound that never heals. The citizen self fears the foreign other because it cannot see that both are the same body. Until the illusion of the separate national self is dissolved, every visa office is a checkpoint of paranoia.