A Yemeni mother blocked by the Trump administration’s travel ban has won her fight for a waiver that would allow her to travel to California to see her dying 2-year-old son.
Basim Elkarra of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Sacramento said Shaima Swileh was granted a visa Tuesday and will be flying to San Francisco on Wednesday.
She has been living in Egypt but is from Yemen, whose citizens are restricted from traveling to the United States under the Trump administration’s travel ban.
Elkarra says the boy’s father, Ali Hassan, is a U.S. citizen who brought their son to California in the fall for treatment for a genetic brain condition. He is on life support at an Oakland hospital. The visa came after the council filed a lawsuit.
I am so fucking relieved. I am so sick of this country separating mothers and their children for no fucking reason. I felt so awful for this woman when I read about this. So incredibly awful.
This country cannot keep ripping mothers and children apart. It’s inhuman. I really want it stopped. I don’t know how to stop it.
It was the bad press that finally did it. Nobody in the Trump administration gives a damn about decency.
I’m sure. That’s the only reason they said anything about the little girl who died - bad press.
It would be nice, too, if the Trumpp admin ended policies that cause a lot of 2-yr olds to die with their families in places like Yemen.
Trumpp and Kushner have handed US Middle East policy over to Israel and the Saudi Barbarians. The leaders of those countries are ignoring their strong disagreements with one another right now so they can take advantage of our pliable and stupid leadership for as long as it lasts.
There will be a reckoning, or at least I keep telling myself and anyone who will listen to me that there will be a reckoning.