The Trump travel ban barring migration from some traditionally Muslim countries is preventing a Yemeni mother from saying goodbye to her terminally ill two year old -- who is on life support in an Oakland, California, hospital. The child, Abdullah Hassan, was born in Yemen with a rare brain disease. He was brought by his father, a U.S. citizen, to his home of Stockton, California, in the hope of life-saving treatment -- but the child's case was deemed terminal.
The San Fransisco Chronicle says that Hassan can no longer breathe on his own. The family is ready to take him off of life support, but the child's mother, Shaima Swileh, cannot get permission to travel to Oakland to hold Hassan's hand, and to say goodbye to her toddler.
Abdullah Hassan has been in the hospital -- UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland -- for five months, and continues to decline. Shaima Swileh is currently in Cairo, Egypt, but thus far, the U.S. State Department has ignored all efforts to get her a waiver to see her child one last time.
The child's father, Ali Hassan, is begging for the chance for his wife to say goodbye to their son.
"All she wishes is to hold his hand for the last time. f I could take him off the ventilator and to the airplane, I would take him to her. I would let her see him. But he won't make it."
