Some quotes from Americans who actually support Trump's actions:
They say they have no problem with refugees and they're not un-American. They just want to protect the US against terror attacks, and they think President Trump's travel ban is a good first step.
"We love refugees, but we want only those coming here who love us and want to assimilate into our culture and way of life."
"We're not mean, we're not anti-American," said Herrmann, who is part of a military family. "It's kind of sad that we're going to automatically assume that what Trump's doing is a horrible thing when we're just checking who's coming in (to the country)."
Even some former refugees support Trump's actions. Helen Megido, a 43-year-old registered nurse in Federal Way, Washington, is herself a refugee who came to the US from Latvia in 1989.
She said she waited six to nine months to get refugee status.
"[If] you want to get here, you wait your chance. You wait your turn," she said. "If they want to get to America, 3 months, 6 months -- it's nothing. They can wait."
Robert Lastra told CNN he was born and reared in South Florida after his father fled Cuba in 1960. He said a wave of Cubans who came to Florida in 1980, many of them released convicts, ruined the place where he grew up.
"I sat there and watched my entire community turn into a literal Dodge City because of all the violence and killing and drug trade," said Lastra, who now lives in east Texas. "I've seen that happening in Texas too.."
He supports Trump's plan to build a wall along the Texas-Mexico border, saying it will be a deterrent to people coming into the United States illegally.
"Thank god that somebody is tightening the borders and they're going to properly vet these people, even if it means keeping most of them out," Lastra said. "They don't have the right to be here to begin with. They don't have constitutional rights to be here. They're here by the grace of God, just like I'm here by the grace of God."
Rhea, who calls herself part of "average Middle America," also lived in South Florida and said she witnessed the dangers of illegal immigration when she saw people arriving on boats. Trump's executive order will make America safer, she said.
"Just as people came way back when and came through Ellis Island -- they were vetted," the Tennessee woman said. "They weren't just allowed to flood our borders."
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