Nisrin Omer, studying
anthropology. She is a graduate of Harvard who is from Sudan and has
lived in this country since 1993. She has a green card and is a legal resident who was returning to the
U.S. from research in Sudan. She was detained for 5 hours and
handcuffed, simply because she is from Sudan, the very same country
that President Obama worked long and hard to improve relations and to
move the country and the region forward. Another example, a Somali woman and her two children detained at
Dulles Airport for 18-plus hours as a result of the Muslim ban. According to reports, the children have U.S. passports, and their
father was allowed to stay in the U.S., but his Somali wife would have
been deported were it not for the emergency stay granted by the New
York Federal judge. Then there are refugees, mostly Somali, stuck in Kenya following the
cancellation of their flight as a result of the executive order. These
stranded travelers had been waiting, according to the U.N. High
Commissioner for Refugees, 10 to 15 years to resettle. And I speak of seven people who are reportedly being detained at the
airport in my city, Los Angeles airport. All of these situations are a
result of the President's executive order which, despite the
protestations from the administration, is nothing less than a Muslim
ban.
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