2-year-old Abdul Hassan, who suffers from a genetic brain disease is on artificial life support at the University of California Benioff Chidren in San Francisco. The doctors are not optimistic and the boy’s father reported that his son can not help and «He will die soon. His time is running out».
This is Abdullah Hassan, a 2-year old US citizen. He’s being treated for a rare condition in California. Doctors say he doesn’t have long to live.
All his mother wants is to hold his hand one last time. But she can’t.
Because of Trump’s Muslim ban, she can’t enter the US. pic.twitter.com/Ki2l9tXDfl
— Muhammad Lila (@MuhammadLila) December 17, 2018
22-year-old father of the child Ali Hassan, a US citizen, in front of the journalists could not hold back the tears. His grief, as you can tell, unbearable, but she managed to burden officials. His wife — the mother of a dying child, was denied entry to the US due to the fact that she is from Yemen, included in the restrictive list of countries.
#BREAKING @CAIRCalifornia holding presser in #Sacramento asking for @POTUS @realDonaldTrump administration to grant waiver for a mother to travel from #Cairo to @UCSFChildrens in #Oakland to say goodbye to her terminally ill 2 yr old son Abdullah Hassan. #abc7now pic.twitter.com/1JzGCTGh8Q
— Laura Anthony (@LauraAnthony7) December 17, 2018
«Losing a child is something that should not survive any one of the parents, but the inability to be there in the last minutes of your child’s life is unbelievably cruel,» says Saad Sweilem, the representative of the Council on American-Islamic relations (CAIR). Shayma, Suilen, mother of Abdul lives in Egypt, but is a citizen of Yemen. This country is among the six States whose citizens restrictions on entry into the United States with the purpose to prevent the infiltration of terrorists. State Department officials, expressing condolences and sympathy to the unfortunate family, however, argue that you can’t circumvent the law and to urgently give the woman a visa.
Now CAIR lawyers are trying to challenge the refusal of permission to enter, but fear that even if be able to overcome the state machine is not enough time. They daily contact Shimoi, Sileh that haven’t seen my son since October, when his father took him for treatment in the United States. «She begins to cry and cry every time. She wants to be near his son. No parent should have to go through this,» say the lawyers.
Two-year-old Abdullah Hassan has been on life support at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland for the past month. He was born with a brain condition that caused seizures weekly, according to his father, Ali Hassan. https://t.co/T2JwJxoiz7 pic.twitter.com/NA7p96kwqH
— KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO (@KNX1070) December 17, 2018
«My son, Abdullah needed his mother. My wife every day, calling me, wanting to kiss and hug the son,» repeats Ali Hassan.
«We do not discuss details of individual cases, obtaining a visa … the Applicants who are not eligible for a visitor visa in accordance with U.S. immigration law, can apply for residence permits from the Ministry of internal security of the United States,» reports CNN review of state Department officials to this situation.
