Yemeni mother wins visa fight to see her dying child in a California hospital
Source: CNN
(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.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/18/us/oakland-child-life-support-yemeni-mother-travel-ban/index.html
I sure hope she gets to the US in time to see him.
This is another cruel travesty perpetrated by the cold-hearted, selfish occupant of the People's House.
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I hope when she arrives tomorrow night into San Francisco, she is able to get to her son before he passes away and touch and kiss him and talk to him....I hope he can hear his mothers voice and feel her touch before he dies...
