'Wanting to Kiss and Hold Her Son One Last Time,'
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'Wanting to Kiss and Hold Her Son One Last Time,' Public Pressure Wins Yemeni Mother Waiver to Trump's Cruel Muslim Ban
"Now we see the Muslim ban's effect in the most dehumanizing way."
by: Jenna McGuire
"Our hearts are breaking for this family." (Photo: CBS Screenshot)
Shaima Swileh, a Yemeni mother who the United States government had denied entry on the basis of the Trump administration's controversial Muslim ban, has finally won a temporary visa to visit her dying two-year-old son, Abdullah Hassan, who has been on life support for over a month in an Oakland, California hospital with his father.
The toddler, Abdullah Hassan, was born in Yemen, nearly two years after that country's civil war began. Abdullah was born with hypomyelination, a rare bra...