SF Chronicle: Trump travel ban keeps Yemeni mother from seeing dying 2-year-old in Oakland
The Yemeni mother of a 2-year-old boy on life support in an Oakland hospital is being prevented from coming to the country to say goodbye to her son by the Trump administration ban on travel from certain Muslim countries, the child’s family says. Abdullah Hassan was born in Yemen with a rare brain disease that initially affected his ability to walk and talk but quickly worsened.
CAIR Sacramento is calling on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to “grant Shaima a waiver to be with her dying son.”