Lately in ASTU class, we have been focusing on the event of 9/11 and the interpretations of different scholars toward this “War on Terror”. Judith Butler, political philosophy ethnic scholar, argues in which situation a life is grievable. Her statement suggests that a life is only considered a liveable life based on its recognition from others. For instance, following the terrorist attack of 9/11, death who were thought as “worthy” were materialize into monuments, poems, movies or books. Relating Judith Butler thesis to recent events concerning the current migrant crisis and the American travel ban, life of people from Middle East are seen less worth to protect than American citizens. By “putting American’s security first”, American government shows clearly a hierarchy in whose life are more important. While preventing terrorist attack to occurs by banning a whole country from entering their territory, the life of those citizens from Muslim country do not seem to merit much attention. As most of the mainstream media draw our focus to terrorist attack in western country, the number of civilians killed in the Middle East because of the war remains uncertain. There is almost no one who acknowledged their death as their life seems to not be worth the count. Many more died while trying to flee their country in complete oblivion and unidentified. As civilian casualties increase, we fail to recognize the pain of other and therefore, contribute to the judgmental idea that our life matter more than the other. Drawing back on Judith Butler’s argument, the international community does not recognize life of those refugees or innocent immigrants as “human life” worth protecting. Despite the perception of America as the protector of human rights, this situation seems somehow hypocrite because America stands as the judge whose life is disposable or not and whose life is worth the sacrifice to potentially prevent death of others. Thus, American’s politic of grief turns death from a specific group of citizens to their advantages, imposing their point of view through medias and soft propaganda.