'Trump is deciding who is American': how the new travel ban is tearing families apart

[G_j]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/16/trump-is-deciding-who-is-american-how-the-new-travel-ban-is-tearing-families-apart

As six countries are added to the list of restrictions, Nigerian and Eritreans in the US say the ban is devastating their lives

Sam Levin in Los Angeles
@SamTLevin Email
Sun 16 Feb 2020 06.00 EST

It started out as a joyous day for Olumide. On 31 January, the 32-year-old Nigerian American learned in an email that the US was finally processing the visa applications of his wife and daughter in Nigeria.

Hours later, Donald Trump shattered their celebration, announcing that he was adding six countries to the travel ban, including Nigeria. The decision cuts off pathways to permanent US residency for Nigerians, throwing Olumide’s case into limbo at the final stage of the process. It leaves his wife and and 11-year-old girl stuck across an ocean with little hope of making it to the US.

“This is inhuman,” said Olumide, a systems analyst and US military veteran who served in Afghanistan and lives in Washington DC. He asked to use his middle name out of fear he might jeopardize his case. “As a soldier, I understand the need to protect the country. But to completely shut the doors … it’s just plain wrong.”

Millions of Africans now banned: ‘We are not criminals’
Trump’s January order builds on the 2017 travel ban that has continued to target five Muslim-majority countries, and significantly restricts permanent residency for nationals from Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria and Myanmar. It also blocks people from Tanzania and Sudan from obtaining green cards through the “diversity visa” lottery.

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[dchill]

1. "Trump is deciding..."

He's got plenty of backup, including Stephen Miller and the hundreds of McConnell Federal judges. And, of course, the Nazi Party Senate.

[Timmygoat]

2. Don't forget

That Trump's grandfather climbed off the boat when his own country did not want him. He immediately pursued a life of crime
starting with brothels.

[malaise]

3. It is simple

Ban Americans from their countries - two can play the game

[pangaia]

7. trump and his nazis wouldn ;t care a bit.

[rickyhall]

4. Dump don't care about the country, he's just a DICK!

[iluvtennis]

5. Just shameful. Be so happy when he is VOTED OUT in November 2020. nt

[keithbvadu2]

6. His bans seem to miss some countries that supply many terrorists... like Saudi Arabia.

His bans seem to miss some countries that supply many terrorists... like Saudi Arabia.

Some even kill our own troops on base here in America. Like in Pensacola.

Trump, August 2015: I make $40 million, $50 million from Saudi Arabia. I like them very much.

Link to tweet

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[abqtommy]

8. Using the logic that trUMP's family was accepted as immigrants and that he himself has

managed to retain U.S. citizenship, then we should abolish ICE and let EVERYBODY into this obvious
Land of Opportunity. Think of the money we'd save on child cages alone...

[Wounded Bear]

9. The cruelty is the point...

It's a feature, not a bug.

[Mc Mike]

10. Deport half of Rump to Germany, half to Scotland.