Family says Trump travel ban preventing mother from seeing dying son

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Source: The Hill

The family of a 2-year-old boy on life support is saying that President Trump's travel ban is preventing his Yemeni mother from traveling to the U.S. to see him one final time, according to The San Francisco Chronicle.

The newspaper reported that Abdullah Hassan, who was born in Yemen and has a form of hypomyelination, is no longer able to breathe on his own. His father, a U.S. citizen who lives in Stockton, Calif., took him to a hospital in about five months ago, where he has stayed since.

The family is reportedly prepared to take Abdullah off of life support. But they told the Chronicle that the U.S. State Department has ignored its attempts to give his mother, Shaima Swileh, a waiver to see him.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/421632-family-says-trump-travel-ban-preventing-mother-from-seeing-dying-son

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Why are fascists always so heartless?

[Jedi Guy]

1. I guess "humanitarian grounds" are no longer grounds at all, to some people.

Whatever bureaucrat ignored their petition for compassionate visitation should be ashamed of themselves. Hopefully this story gets some traction and pressure is applied so this mother can see her son one last time before it's too late. Deliberately keeping a mother from seeing her dying child is about as evil and heartless as it gets.

[mucifer]

2. You have no idea how many families have been split over the past few decades.

I'm a pediatric nurse. Years ago I was a home health nurse administering chemotherapy in people's home. I started in the '90s and I remember clearly many parents and grandparents were permitted to come from Mexico to spend final days with a dying child. Now it's almost impossible. I am now a pediatric hospice nurse. Even with letters from the hospital and the hospice doctor we almost never can reunite families before the child dies.

I have seen families facetime or skype deaths. It's pretty surreal to walk into a home and you can see grandma with a look of extreme grief on her face on a screen facing the child's body.

[Kablooie]

3. Recently a father from Guatamala was not allowed to attend his daughter's funeral here.

What is it with not even allowing visitor visas?

[Moebym]

4. This degree of cruelty shouldn't shock me

It's par for the course for this administration. But I feel that to not still be shocked at the depths of their depravity would be the same as ceasing to care.

It's so much easier to be apathetic, but I just can't do it.

[iluvtennis]

5. Kirstjen Nielsen and donald will have some bad karma coming their way. This is just evil.

[JI7]

6. i guess God just cares that people say Merry Christmas when they buy shit at Walmart

[mahina]

7. I try hard to stay in the light, but I'm struggling with a growing hate for the man and his demons.