The drama of a mother who can not enter the United States to see a child dying | World

The statement comes from Ali Hbadan, the father of Abdullah Hbadan, a 2-year-old boy who was born with a rare neurological disorder that, according to doctors, will not survive.

Hbadan refers to the desire of his wife, Shaima Swileh, a native of Yemen, who can not enter the United States, where her son is hospitalized, because of the migratory veto imposed in 2017 by US President Donald Trump.

Abdullah – diagnosed as suffering from hypomyelination, a disease that affects the ability to breathe – is hospitalized at Oakland Hospital, California. According to local media, he and his father are US citizens.

The family is fighting for Swileh's right to see their son one last time before turning off the devices that keep him alive.

The father also argues that the boy would not survive a transfer to another country.

Shortly after taking office, Trump imposed restrictions on the entry into the US territory of citizens of the United States. a series of countries – almost all of them with a Muslim majority.

The decree has undergone several changes before being validated in June of this year by the Supreme Court.

The veto on immigration bans the entry of Iranian, North Korean, Venezuelan, Libyan, Somali, Syrian and Yemeni citizens.

In the case of Venezuela, restrictions are limited to persons working for the Government and their families.

"Incomprehensibly cruel"

Saad Sweilem of the Council of American-Islamic Relations, which advocates the unity of the family to prevent the mother of Abdullah from entering the country, is " incomprehensibly cruel ".

The boy's father was born in California, but he met his wife in Yemen, where they had seven children.

When Abdullah was eight months old, the family settled in Cairo, Egypt, to flee the civil war in Yemen.

About three months ago, Hbadan took his son to the United States for treatment, in the hope that the woman would join them later.

But after the doctors declared that the condition of the child was terminally ill, the family applied for a visa so that they could go to the United States urgently.

They say they have received a rejection letter from the US State Department citing Trump's veto on immigration.

A manager of the agency, who did not want to be identified, refused to discuss the case specifically for reasons of confidentiality.

But he told the BBC that the authorities "are fighting to facilitate the legitimate travel of international visitors".