During their seven years of marriage, Sunny and Arooj have spent only six months together. When the couple fled for their lives from their native Pakistan, They believed their separation would at most last a month or two. Arooj made it to Spokane, Washington while Sunny remains in international legal limbo from the Trump administrations continuous limiting of refugees the U.S. allows in each year. What many fail to realize is that Sunny and Arooj are just the latest in a long tradition of refugees fleeing danger and hardship to start over in the U.S. — from pilgrims fleeing religious persecution to the Irish running from famine and Jews escaping Nazi Europe. They are us.