Great News! The Somali family made it to KC.

[leftyladyfrommo]

There was a house all ready for this mother and her 8 children. Furniture was donated.

And then they got turned back during the ban. We're sent back to the refugee camp.

But they all made it yesterday.

The Somali community here really helps their own to assimilate and do
well.

This is such good news. Those poor people have been stuck in a camp for years.

[Tanuki]

1. So glad to hear this! We had a similar happy ending in Nashville

for a Kurdish Iraqi translator and his family who were initially turned back when they tried to change planes in Cairo after Trump's deplorable and illegal Muslim ban was decreed. Here is a story about their warm welcome in Nashville a few days later, when hundreds of well wishers greeted them at the airport.

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2017/02/05/kurdish-family-arrive-nashville-after-executieve-order-travel-ban-delay/97491006/
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I wish the KC Somali family and all who come here in search of a better life much happiness and fulfillment of their hopes and dreams. It is increasingly up to each of us who still holds on to our ideals to "lift our lamp beside the golden door."

[Tess49]

3. So glad to hear this! This was a family I had seen interviewed as they were turned away. I worried

about them, knowing they had given up everything just to get here.

[yeoman6987]

2. I am not sure if this was part of the assistance the actress from Nashville the tv show

But she's been an angel in trying to help refugees to settle into Nashville.

[procon]

4. I can't imagine the shock they must be going through.

Just moving across the world to a strange land to start a new life with nothing but what they carried with them, is very courageous. To do it with so many kids in tow, takes a very strong woman. The culture of going from a refugee camp to a real house must be difficult, butt at least they will have peace and safety. I hope there is a good program of community support to help them with the transition and get them all settled into their new life.