Two-year-old, whose Yemeni mother was initially denied a visa under Trump's travel ban, dies in Cali

[Eugene]

Source: USA Today

Two-year-old, whose Yemeni mother was initially denied a visa under Trump's travel ban, dies in California hospital

Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY Published 10:49 a.m. ET Dec. 29, 2018 | Updated 11:09 a.m. ET Dec. 29, 2018

A terminally ill 2-year-old boy, whose Yemeni mother had to sue the State Department to get a visa to join him in a California hospital, died Friday night of a rare brain condition, the Council on American-Islamic Relations announced.

Abdullah Hassan, an American citizen, was to be buried Saturday.

“We are heartbroken. We had to say goodbye to our baby, the light of our lives,” Ali Hassan, the boy's father, who is also an American citizen, said in a statement issued by CAIR Sacramento Valley.

The Hassan family, including Abdullah's mother, Shaima Swileh, had been living in Cairo, where the couple moved following the outbreak of war in Yemen in 2016.

They had been unable to move to California because Shaima, a Yemeni national, was turned down for a visa under the Trump administration's 2017 travel ban.

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Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/12/29/terminally-ill-boy-whose-yemeni-mom-initially-denied-visa-dies/2439574002/

[shenmue]

1. Third murder

[Claritie Pixie]

3. No, the child came here for treatment with his father, both US citizens.

The tragedy is that the mother was prevented from entering the country and was not able to comfort and spend precious time with her dying child.

Monsters are in charge.

[shenmue]

5. Came here with parents, so that makes it not murder?

[Claritie Pixie]

6. How is it murder? I want to understand why you think that.

[secondwind]

2. And what now? Does the U.S. just dump her back in Yemen, where her life may be in peril? n/t

[smirkymonkey]

4. Evil and heartless.

I am so sorry for this poor family. RIP little one.