Obama made his way around the room, asking the children what they wanted to be when they grew up. An engineer, one said. An artist, said another. He knelt for some time next to a Rohingya girl with a white headscarf. She was painting something, smiling shyly while averting her eyes. I stood against the wall, looking at the different kids, most of whom had been rescued from human traffickers. When we were done, Obama took a few pictures with the kids, and then made his way to an adjacent room. “That’s who we need to keep out of the country,” he said to me, mimicking his Republican critics with
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