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'This is my family': Travel ban debate hits home

Friday, 20 April 2018 7:47 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 20 April 2018 7:58 AM ]

At the New York City convenience store where he works the overnight shift, Radad Alborati takes a sip of coffee and surveys his life.

His wife is stuck in war-torn Yemen after his years-long effort to bring her to the US ended last month with a few phrases on a letter from an embassy. "Ineligible for a visa" - due to President Donald Trump's restrictions on immigration and travel from certain countries.

As the US Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments next week on Trump's travel ban, its effects are playing out for Alborati and others from Manhattan to Minnesota to the Middle East. He has also applied to bring his wife, whom he has known since childhood, and the family they built during his visits to Yemen.

(Source: AFP)

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