Anti-foreigner sentiment and crimes against those who are different are on the rise in the United States. Among the groups in US society targeted for hate crime are Muslims, both American and foreign-born.

"I'm very fearful for my life,” said Shorouq Shenaq, a victim of a hate incident. "It's almost like it was dormant and then it came out when Trump made it the norm."

Fatmah, an Americans Muslim, was once abused by a young American man as she stood in line in a store.

"I was a target and the man behind me just said 'Go back to your own country. You need to learn English.' Little did he know that I speak English. I'm also a college graduate. It hurts because a part of me just wants to tell them 'I wish you knew who I was,’" said Fatah.

There was an 85-percent increase the hate crimes against Muslims in the five days after then-candidate Donald Trump's Muslim ban announcement on Dec 7, 2015, according to Brian Levin of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism.

"There appears to be a correlation, we don't know if it's a cause yet. but there appears to be a correlation between political rhetoric and hate crime,” said Levin.