RNA - Outrage ensuing from the Trump administration’s entry ban against the citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries peaked earlier this week, after it caused hardship for a 1-year-old Iraqi boy, who was sent to the US for treatment after suffering serious burns at a refugee camp, the Time reported Wednesday.
The parents of the boy had obtained visas to join their baby boy, Dilbreen (pictured below), who is slated to undergo surgery later this week. However, their permits to enter the US were revoked after Trump’s order.
“So they are stranded in Iraq,” said Carrie Schuchardt, who works at the Massachusetts social-services organization House of Peace, where Dilbreen’s family was going to stay. “The child is here. The need for surgery is pressing.”
Trump has come under fire both inside the US and abroad since Friday, when he signed an executive order that halted all refugee admissions for four months, banned Syrian refugees indefinitely and barred visitors and immigrants from Iran, Libya, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from entering America for 90 days.
White House defends detention of 5-year-old Iranian
Earlier this week, the White House defended the detention of a 5-year-old Iranian boy, arguing that Muslims are a threat regardless of their age.
“To assume that just because of someone’s age and gender that they don’t pose a threat would be misguided and wrong,” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said during his daily briefing on Monday.
Footage surfaced over the weekend, showing a teary-eyed Iranian mother at Dulles International airport in Washington DC anxiously waiting for her detained son to be released.
The boy, an American citizen, was flown to America with another family and reportedly spent hours in police custody before being reunited with her mom.
The mother sang “happy birthday” to her son in both Farsi and English, giving the impression that the boy went through the discriminating process on his birthday.
In the short video clip, the boy is heard innocently asking his mom and aunt if they can go to Legoland later.
Following the directive, thousands of Americans staged demonstrations and gathered in airports across the country to oppose the ban.
Four states of New York, Massachusetts, Virginia and Washington have taken the legal path to sue Trump.
Iran has censured the “insulting” decision, putting together a task force to respond to the move in kind.
Even America’s closes ally, the UK, could not hide its disappointment with the ban, with Home Secretary Amber Rudd saying it worked right into the hands of Daesh (ISIL) as a “propaganda opportunity.”
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