Yemeni mother wins visa fight to see her dying child in a California hospital

[Denizen]

The Trumpist state department have been blocking this visa application for months and only relented after the father appeared in television news shows begging for the visa issue so that the mother could be with her son before he died. It should not have needed begging on TV for the State Department to do its job.

The Trumpists in the State Department have been misapplying the law.

When Trump is gone the State Department should be cleaned of the people Trump appointed.

Yemeni mother wins visa fight to see her dying child in a California hospital - CNN

Yemeni mother wins visa fight to see her dying child in a California hospital
By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN
Updated 2010 GMT (0410 HKT) December 18, 2018

(CNN)The US State Department granted a Yemeni mother, whose 2-year-old son is on life support in an Oakland hospital, a waiver Tuesday to travel to the United States, according to officials with the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Shaima Swileh will catch the earliest available flight out of Egypt and is scheduled to arrive in San Francisco on Wednesday evening, said Basim Elkarra, the executive director of the council's Sacramento Valley chapter.
Money secured through a fundraising effort will pay for her flight and the boy's funeral, he said.

The news came shortly after the boy's father, Ali Hassan, appeared on CNN pleading with consular officials to expedite his wife's visa application so that she'd be able to see her son one last time.
Hassan, 22, and his son, Abdullah, are American citizens, but Swileh lives in Egypt. Because she is Yemeni, she's restricted from traveling to the United States under the White House travel ban.

After receiving a waiver to the ban, Swileh will travel to the United States on an I-130 visa, which permits entry to close relatives of American citizens, Elkarra said. Hassan spoke to her via video chat as she left the American Embassy in Cairo to prepare for her trip, he said.
"Unfortunately, even in this win, it's still a loss, but at least she'll come and be able to mourn with dignity and see her son get buried and bring some closure to all the pain," Elkarra said.
"We just hope that she can make it in time and see her son in his last hours."
Hours before news of the visa came, Hassan told CNN, "Time is running out for my son, to be honest. ... All she wishes is to see her son, and that's it. We want to be together."

He issued a plea to President Donald Trump: "All families, they're supposed to be together. Right now, with my son's situation, he's facing death. I'm going through losing my son. It's really hard for me and for my mother and for my family and my wife, too. It's just really hard."

Abdullah, whose birthday was Saturday, is suffering from a genetic brain condition, and his father flew him to the States for treatment on October 1. It was the last time his mother saw him.
Doctors have told Hassan that patients such as his son are usually on life support for two or three weeks, or at maximum, a month. Abdullah has been on a ventilator at University of California San Francisco's Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland for more than a month, his father said.
"It's really bad," he said.

Swileh has been crying every day, and she calls Hassan saying she just wants to see her son and "give him a kiss before he goes," the father told CNN.
"She's going crazy," he said.

Though Trump's travel ban -- billed as a means of thwarting terrorists' entry into the United States -- has drawn legal challenges, the executive order still restricts nationals of Yemen and six other countries from entering the country.

According to the State Department, consular officers can make exceptions to the travel restriction when a visa's "issuance is in the national interest, the applicant poses no national security or public safety threat to the United States, and denial of the visa would cause undue hardship."
State Department officials were not immediately available for comment Tuesday. On Monday, the department said it makes "every effort to facilitate legitimate travel by international visitors," but an official said the department would not comment on individual visa cases.

 

[BULLDOG]

What a disgusting and senseless thing for the family to have gone through. Thanks Trump, you pig.

 

[Wyatt earp]

The first thing she will do is drop an anchor baby ..


.

 

[BlackFlag]

The first thing she will do is drop an anchor baby ..


.

Another American for you to hate?

 

[jehanne1431]

The Trumpist state department have been blocking this visa application for months and only relented after the father appeared in television news shows begging for the visa issue so that the mother could be with her son before he died. It should not have needed begging on TV for the State Department to do its job.

The Trumpists in the State Department have been misapplying the law.

When Trump is gone the State Department should be cleaned of the people Trump appointed.

Yemeni mother wins visa fight to see her dying child in a California hospital - CNN

Yemeni mother wins visa fight to see her dying child in a California hospital
By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN
Updated 2010 GMT (0410 HKT) December 18, 2018

(CNN)The US State Department granted a Yemeni mother, whose 2-year-old son is on life support in an Oakland hospital, a waiver Tuesday to travel to the United States, according to officials with the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Shaima Swileh will catch the earliest available flight out of Egypt and is scheduled to arrive in San Francisco on Wednesday evening, said Basim Elkarra, the executive director of the council's Sacramento Valley chapter.
Money secured through a fundraising effort will pay for her flight and the boy's funeral, he said.

The news came shortly after the boy's father, Ali Hassan, appeared on CNN pleading with consular officials to expedite his wife's visa application so that she'd be able to see her son one last time.
Hassan, 22, and his son, Abdullah, are American citizens, but Swileh lives in Egypt. Because she is Yemeni, she's restricted from traveling to the United States under the White House travel ban.

After receiving a waiver to the ban, Swileh will travel to the United States on an I-130 visa, which permits entry to close relatives of American citizens, Elkarra said. Hassan spoke to her via video chat as she left the American Embassy in Cairo to prepare for her trip, he said.
"Unfortunately, even in this win, it's still a loss, but at least she'll come and be able to mourn with dignity and see her son get buried and bring some closure to all the pain," Elkarra said.
"We just hope that she can make it in time and see her son in his last hours."
Hours before news of the visa came, Hassan told CNN, "Time is running out for my son, to be honest. ... All she wishes is to see her son, and that's it. We want to be together."

He issued a plea to President Donald Trump: "All families, they're supposed to be together. Right now, with my son's situation, he's facing death. I'm going through losing my son. It's really hard for me and for my mother and for my family and my wife, too. It's just really hard."

Abdullah, whose birthday was Saturday, is suffering from a genetic brain condition, and his father flew him to the States for treatment on October 1. It was the last time his mother saw him.
Doctors have told Hassan that patients such as his son are usually on life support for two or three weeks, or at maximum, a month. Abdullah has been on a ventilator at University of California San Francisco's Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland for more than a month, his father said.
"It's really bad," he said.

Swileh has been crying every day, and she calls Hassan saying she just wants to see her son and "give him a kiss before he goes," the father told CNN.
"She's going crazy," he said.

Though Trump's travel ban -- billed as a means of thwarting terrorists' entry into the United States -- has drawn legal challenges, the executive order still restricts nationals of Yemen and six other countries from entering the country.

According to the State Department, consular officers can make exceptions to the travel restriction when a visa's "issuance is in the national interest, the applicant poses no national security or public safety threat to the United States, and denial of the visa would cause undue hardship."
State Department officials were not immediately available for comment Tuesday. On Monday, the department said it makes "every effort to facilitate legitimate travel by international visitors," but an official said the department would not comment on individual visa cases.

Well I will take your word on it that Trump & Co. could have handled this more humanely.
I just want the sympathy to flow from years gone by for beleagured Arabs, not just since January 2016. Because 2 million Arabs in Syria are Christian. But the kindly, merciful Obama somehow did not take pity on Syrian Christians like he did Syrian Arabs. The refugees allowed into the USA is only one example of this. These people suffered as much as the one you are sighing over. The United States Bars Christian, Not Muslim, Refugees From Syria

 

[Muhammed]

What a disgusting and senseless thing for the family to have gone through. Thanks Trump, you pig.

That was some obviously feigned outrage.

You don't really give a fuck about those people.

 

[Asclepias]

The Trumpist state department have been blocking this visa application for months and only relented after the father appeared in television news shows begging for the visa issue so that the mother could be with her son before he died. It should not have needed begging on TV for the State Department to do its job.

The Trumpists in the State Department have been misapplying the law.

When Trump is gone the State Department should be cleaned of the people Trump appointed.

Yemeni mother wins visa fight to see her dying child in a California hospital - CNN

Yemeni mother wins visa fight to see her dying child in a California hospital
By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN
Updated 2010 GMT (0410 HKT) December 18, 2018

(CNN)The US State Department granted a Yemeni mother, whose 2-year-old son is on life support in an Oakland hospital, a waiver Tuesday to travel to the United States, according to officials with the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Shaima Swileh will catch the earliest available flight out of Egypt and is scheduled to arrive in San Francisco on Wednesday evening, said Basim Elkarra, the executive director of the council's Sacramento Valley chapter.
Money secured through a fundraising effort will pay for her flight and the boy's funeral, he said.

The news came shortly after the boy's father, Ali Hassan, appeared on CNN pleading with consular officials to expedite his wife's visa application so that she'd be able to see her son one last time.
Hassan, 22, and his son, Abdullah, are American citizens, but Swileh lives in Egypt. Because she is Yemeni, she's restricted from traveling to the United States under the White House travel ban.

After receiving a waiver to the ban, Swileh will travel to the United States on an I-130 visa, which permits entry to close relatives of American citizens, Elkarra said. Hassan spoke to her via video chat as she left the American Embassy in Cairo to prepare for her trip, he said.
"Unfortunately, even in this win, it's still a loss, but at least she'll come and be able to mourn with dignity and see her son get buried and bring some closure to all the pain," Elkarra said.
"We just hope that she can make it in time and see her son in his last hours."
Hours before news of the visa came, Hassan told CNN, "Time is running out for my son, to be honest. ... All she wishes is to see her son, and that's it. We want to be together."

He issued a plea to President Donald Trump: "All families, they're supposed to be together. Right now, with my son's situation, he's facing death. I'm going through losing my son. It's really hard for me and for my mother and for my family and my wife, too. It's just really hard."

Abdullah, whose birthday was Saturday, is suffering from a genetic brain condition, and his father flew him to the States for treatment on October 1. It was the last time his mother saw him.
Doctors have told Hassan that patients such as his son are usually on life support for two or three weeks, or at maximum, a month. Abdullah has been on a ventilator at University of California San Francisco's Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland for more than a month, his father said.
"It's really bad," he said.

Swileh has been crying every day, and she calls Hassan saying she just wants to see her son and "give him a kiss before he goes," the father told CNN.
"She's going crazy," he said.

Though Trump's travel ban -- billed as a means of thwarting terrorists' entry into the United States -- has drawn legal challenges, the executive order still restricts nationals of Yemen and six other countries from entering the country.

According to the State Department, consular officers can make exceptions to the travel restriction when a visa's "issuance is in the national interest, the applicant poses no national security or public safety threat to the United States, and denial of the visa would cause undue hardship."
State Department officials were not immediately available for comment Tuesday. On Monday, the department said it makes "every effort to facilitate legitimate travel by international visitors," but an official said the department would not comment on individual visa cases.

Good to hear.

 

[Denizen]

The first thing she will do is drop an anchor baby ..


.

Ignorance is your finest quality. The rest of your 'qualities' are unspeakable and hateful.

Yemeni mother blocked by travel ban is granted U.S. visa to see her dying son, attorney says

Swileh’s husband, Ali Hassan, 22, is a U.S. citizen and resident of Stockton, Calif. The two met in Yemen, were married in February 2016 and soon had their son, Abdullah.

 

[Likkmee]

To the laaaaaaaaand of the feee, where there is no plan B.

 

[Tijn Von Ingersleben]

Is it pregnant?

 

[harmonica]

this is for protecting Americans
I guess you are against that????!!!!
not THAT is stupid

 

[BULLDOG]

What a disgusting and senseless thing for the family to have gone through. Thanks Trump, you pig.

That was some obviously feigned outrage.

You don't really give a fuck about those people.

Nothing feigned about seeing that mother kept from her child as an affront to humanity.

 

[Godboy]

What a disgusting and senseless thing for the family to have gone through. Thanks Trump, you pig.

Is she coming or not? If shes coming, what the fuck are you mad at Trump for?

 

[Godboy]

The first thing she will do is drop an anchor baby ..


.

Another American for you to hate?

No, another American for democrats to poison with their victim ideology.

 

[BULLDOG]

What a disgusting and senseless thing for the family to have gone through. Thanks Trump, you pig.

Is she coming or not? If shes coming, what the fuck are you mad at Trump for?

Because she has been trying to see her dying child for months.

 

[Godboy]

What a disgusting and senseless thing for the family to have gone through. Thanks Trump, you pig.

Is she coming or not? If shes coming, what the fuck are you mad at Trump for?

Because she has been trying to see her dying child for months.

So? Its our responsibility to make sure that other nations citizens come here quickly?

 

[BULLDOG]

What a disgusting and senseless thing for the family to have gone through. Thanks Trump, you pig.

Is she coming or not? If shes coming, what the fuck are you mad at Trump for?

Because she has been trying to see her dying child for months.

So? Its our responsibility to make sure that other nations citizens come here quickly?

You aren't worth discussing this with.

 

[Kittymom1026]

I saw this earlier and was glad that she will finally get to see him before he dies. I've seen photos of him and he's such a beautiful child and it breaks my heart to see those tubes in him. And before the critics come here, I hate to see it for any child.

 

[BULLDOG]

I saw this earlier and was glad that she will finally get to see him before he dies. I've seen photos of him and he's such a beautiful child and it breaks my heart to see those tubes in him. And before the critics come here, I hate to see it for any child.

Some things are beyond politics. This situation should have been one of those things.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

The Islamist have destroyed Yemen and the Dirty Democrats want to bring them here just for more anti-American voters.