Disabled Yemeni Child, Cited in Supreme Court Review of Travel Ban, Gains Entry to U.S.
A disabled Yemeni girl whose exclusion from the U.S.
was questioned by Supreme Court justices reviewing the Trump administration's travel ban is expected to arrive in New York Saturday for resettlement.
After denying her application in January, the U.S.
Embassy in Djibouti reversed course and issued visas Wednesday allowing 10-year-old Shaema Alomari and her family to immigrate to the U.S., her father, Nageeb Alomari, said in a telephone interview.
Shaema was born with cerebral palsy, a disorder that leaves her unable to walk, talk or feed herself, Mr Alomari said.
"When she is in pain, she just cries and can't tell what is wrong with her," he said.
"She cannot take care of herself.
Her mother cleans her, changes her clothes and does all things Shaema needs.
I help my wife as much as I can," said Mr Alomari, who is a naturalized U.S.
citizen.
Another of his three daughters also holds U.S.
citizenship, while his wife, Asma, and other two children do not.
The travel ban, signed by President Donald Trump in September after courts blocked two previous versions, currently bars entry by citizens of five Muslim-majority nations—Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen—as well as North Koreans and some individuals associated with the government of Venezuela.
The Justice Department has said the ban is necessary because the affected governments have been unable to provide U.S.
authorities with adequate information about their nationals who may present security risks.
Challenges to the ban, led by the state of Hawaii and now being heard in the Supreme Court, contend it is based on religious prejudice, tracing back to Mr Trump's campaign pledge to effect "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.
Lower courts largely have agreed that the ban lacks adequate justification and violates immigration laws prohibiting discrimination based on nationality in issuing visas.
In defending the ban, the Justice Department has noted it provides exceptions for individuals with compelling reasons to enter the U.
, among them "an infant, a young child or adoptee [or] an individual needing urgent medical care.
At oral arguments before the Supreme Court in April, several justices suggested their view of the ban could hinge on whether the waiver provisions were faithfully implemented.
They focused on Shaema's case, which had been highlighted in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in March, where she was identified as "S.".
"How do you deal with the example that was brought up of the child with cerebral palsy?" Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg asked the administration's lawyer, Solicitor General Noel Francisco.
"Your Honor, the waiver is built to address those issues.
I am not familiar enough with the details of that case to tell you what happened in that particular case," Mr Francisco said.
A State Department spokesman declined to comment on Shaema's case, saying that privacy laws preclude discussing specific visa applications.
The spokesman referred to a department report indicating that as of May 15, "at least 655 applicants were cleared for waivers after a consular officer determined the applicants satisfied all criteria and completed all required processing.
The number of Yemeni applicants whose waivers were approved appears to have increased following the Supreme Court arguments, said Mosheer Fittahey, a translator and immigration consultant in Schenectady, N.Y., who is working with Mr Alomari and other Yemenis.
Himself a Yemeni immigrant, Mr Fittahey said that like Mr Alomari, many of those applicants previously had been denied without explanation or opportunity to appeal.
Mr Alomari, along with Mr Fittahey and lawyers who prepared the Supreme Court brief, described a long struggle with an opaque immigration bureaucracy to relocate his family from the inland Yemeni city of Ibb to the U.
, where prospects for Shaema were better.
Mr Alomari, 39, says his own education reached only primary school in Ibb, where documents list his occupation as laborer.
He first visited the U.S., where he has relatives, in the 1990s and has lived in California and Alabama, working restaurant and gas station jobs, according to immigration documents and people familiar with his case.
He periodically returned to Yemen and in 2000 was married there and planned to start a family.
He and his wife "kept waiting for a child and prayed to God that He gives me a child," Mr Alomari said, but to no avail.
"I visited many hospitals in Ibb and Sana'a, but all went in vain.
Therefore, I felt disappointed and got depressed.
Later, my wife and I decided to travel to Egypt hoping that I receive better treatment to help me get a child," he said.
"Doctors there decided that I should have varicocele surgery," a procedure to address male infertility.
"The operation was a big success and I got my child, Shaema," he said.
"Although I have two more daughters, Shaema is our first and last love.".
Caring for her, however, has been a major focus for the family.
"Shaema cannot study and cannot move," Mr Alomari said.
"We don't feel like we deal with a 10-year-old girl, her brain is like a baby brain.
She is just like a baby, she eats like a baby.".
Mr Alomari was granted U.S.
citizenship in 2010 and began to consider moving his family to America.
Shaema had been receiving treatment in Sana'a, the Yemeni capital, but Mr Alomari said things became increasingly difficult.
"Many doctors fled the country and there is a shortage of medicine," he said.The family learned Shaema needed surgery on one of her legs.
"We cannot do it in Yemen, and I was hoping I can do it in the U.S.," Mr Alomari said.
After filing immigration paperwork, the Alomaris waited years for a visa-interview appointment with U.S.
consular officers, which was scheduled for January 2018.
While they were waiting, Mr Trump was elected president and, within days of taking office in January 2017, began the contested effort to ban entry from Yemen and some other Muslim-majority countries.
Nevertheless, Mr Fittahey, who had been advising Mr Alomari, said he was certain Sahema's waiver would be granted.
After the January interview, however, a consular officer denied the application.
Mr Alomari received a form letter, where a box was checked by the line, "Taking into account the provisions of the Proclamation, a waiver will not be granted in your case.".
"Today's decision cannot be appealed," it added.
A place where authorities could indicate that the case remained under review wasn't marked.
A day before the Supreme Court arguments, an American vice consul in Djibouti sent an email to Mr Alomari saying that after the January interview, "I determined the very same day that your family's case clearly met the standard of hardship and necessity specified.
and I therefore recommended your family for a waiver.
"However, I could not inform you of this at the time of the interview because under department rules, the waiver still required review from my supervisor.
The waiver was approved," the email stated, and the visas would come after further processing.
The vice consul didn't explain why there was no check by the line on the form letter indicating that the review remained under way.
Mr Alomari, who is expected to arrive with his family at John F.
Kennedy International Airport Saturday afternoon, had his own explanation for the government's about-face on his family's application.
"Thanks to the Supreme Court that mentioned Shaema and helped me get the waiver," he said.
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Most Anticipated YA Book Releases | June-December 2018 - Duration: 9:35.
Hi everyone, it's Sandy and in today's video, I'm going to be talking about my
most anticipated YA book releases for the second half of the year, so the books
that I'm excited about that are coming out between the months of June to
December of 2018. I'm going to cheat a little and include one book that's
coming out in May because I thought it was originally coming out in June so I
didn't mention it in my first anticipated releases video for the first
half of the year. That book is From Twinkle, With Love by Sandhya Menon and
this book is coming out May 22nd. I originally thought it was coming out
like June 5th but I guess I was wrong. This is the second book written by the
author of When Dimple Met Rishi and I'm really excited about this one because it
follows Twinkle, who is an aspiring filmmaker. She has the opportunity to
direct a movie for a summer festival and a really cool thing about this book is
that it's told through letters written to Twinkle's favorite female directors. The
next book that I'm anticipating is Save the Date by Morgan Matson. This book is
coming out June 5th and it follows Charlie, whose older sister is getting
married and it takes place over the course of three days and there's a lot of
problems and disasters that are leading up to the wedding. It has been quite a
long time since Morgan Matson published a book and I'm super excited for this
new one that's coming out soon. I think Morgan Matson is like one of the queens
of summer contemporary books and I think I'm going to have a lot of fun reading
this. My next most anticipated release is A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir.
This is the third book in An Ember in the Ashes series. I believe there's going to
be a total of four books and this third one is coming out June 12.
I don't reread books a lot but I think I really need to do a reread before I jump
into the third one because the second book came out almost two years ago so
it's been quite a long time since I've been back in the Ember in the Ashes
world. Another anticipated release is A Thousand Beginnings and Endings and this
book is edited by Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman. This book is actually a
collection of short stories written by a variety of Asian American authors and
all of these short stories revolve around East and South Asian folklore and
mythology and it just sounds amazing This one is coming out June 26. I'm also
looking forward to reading Contagion by Erin Bowman. This one is coming out July
24th and it is a YA sci-fi book. This book is about a crew who is
dispatched to a distant planet to perform a standard search and rescue
mission but when they arrive on this planet, they find an abandoned site full
of dead bodies. So throughout this book, they're basically trying to figure out
what happened and what's going on. I don't read a lot of sci-fi books but
this one sounds really interesting and I really want to know what happens. The
next book is The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas. This one is coming out July 31st.
The synopsis of this book is pretty vague but it seems to revolve around
cheerleaders in this town. Five years ago, two of these cheerleaders were in a car
accident and they both ended up passing away. And then there were two other
cheerleaders who were killed by a man next door and then the last cheerleader
is the main character's sister, who actually committed suicide. So there is
death revolving around these cheerleaders and the cheerleaders are
suddenly relevant again. I don't really know what that means but I read Little
Monsters, which is a book written by the same author, and I really enjoyed that
and I really enjoy mystery books, so this was one that I wanted to add to my TBR.
The next book is The Darkest Legacy by Alexandra Bracken. On Goodreads, it's
labeled as the fourth book in The Darkest Minds trilogy but it's more of a
companion novel because it takes place five years after the end of the trilogy,
and it follows Zu, who is one of the side characters throughout the trilogy and I
really loved her character and with the movie coming out, I'm even more excited
to read this book and I love the cover. This one is coming out July 31st. The
next book that I'm looking forward to is Dance of Thieves by Mary E. Pearson. This
book is coming out August 7th and it follows a leader of an outlaw dynasty
and a thief. The synopsis again is also pretty vague so I don't really know what
is going to happen between these two but I'm assuming they're gonna fall in love
or something. I really enjoyed Mary E. Pearson's The Remnant Chronicles and I
believe this book is set in the Remnant Chronicles world so that sounds awesome
and I can't wait to read it. The next book is Our Stories, Our Voices, which is
an anthology edited by Amy Reed. Amy Reed is the author of The Nowhere Girls, which
is one of my favorites of 2018. This is a collection of 21 essays written by 21
different YA authors. A few of the authors include Sandhya Menon, Julie
Murphy, Maurene Goo, Nina Lacour, and Sona Charaipotra,
and it explores the diverse experiences of injustice, empowerment, and
growing up female in America. It sounds incredible. I can't wait to
read it. I'm also looking forward to reading (Don't) Call Me Crazy which is
another anthology edited by Kelly Jensen. There are voices from 33 different
people including Adam Silvera, Libba Bray, Victoria Schwab, Emery Lord,
Meredith Russo, and so much more. It's told through essays, artwork, poetry, and
other things that revolve around the topic of mental health. This anthology
comes out October 2nd. The next book that I'm anticipating is What If It's Us by
Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli. This book is coming out October 9th and I
love Adam Silvera's books. I love Becky Albertalli's books, so having
one written by the both of them is amazing. This book follows Arthur who is living
in New York City for the summer and one day, Arthur meets Ben, who has just
recently broken up with his boyfriend, and they met at a post office and I
believe that is the beginning of some sort of romance. I am really looking
forward to reading this one. Another book that I'm looking forward to is Odd One
Out by Nic Stone. I read her debut novel Dear Martin in March and I thought it
was incredible, so I'm looking forward to reading a new book she's publishing. The
synopsis is very vague on Goodreads but it shows the description of three different
characters so I'm assuming that these are the characters that the story is
going to follow. This one is coming out October 9th. The next book is Kingdom of
Ash by Sarah J. Maas. This is the seventh and final book in the Throne of Glass
series. I'm not as connected with Sarah J Mass's books anymore but I have started
the Throne of Glass series since the second book was out. To be honest, I still
need to read Tower of Dawn but I'm hoping to get to it sometime this summer but
since this is the last book in the series, I'm really interested in seeing
how Sarah J. Maas is going to wrap up the story, and this book is coming out
October 23rd. The next book that I'm looking forward to reading is Little
White Lies by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. This book is coming out November 6 and
Jennifer Lynn Barnes is the author of The Naturals series and The Fixer and I
love both of those series. I think she does a great job at writing mystery
books and this is another mystery/ thriller book. This book follows
eighteen-year-old Sawyer who is an auto mechanic.
She is approached by her estranged grandmother with a six-figure contract
to participate in this debutante season and I don't really know what that means
but the synopsis says that she does accept the offer and she immerses
herself in her grandmother's society. The society is in quotes so is it some
sort of secret society thing? I don't know. I'm just going to resort to reading
a little bit of the synopsis on Goodreads just because I feel like I
can't properly explain what this book is about. "As Sawyer is drawn into the group
of debutantes with scandalous dangerous secrets of their own, Sawyer quickly
discovers that her family isn't the only mainstay of high society with skeletons
in their closet. There are people in her grandmother's glittering world who are not
what they appear and no one wants Sawyer poking her nose into the past. As she
navigates the twisted relationships between her new friends and their
powerful parents, Sawyer's search for the truth about her own origins is just the
beginning." To be honest, I don't know if the synopsis intrigues me enough but
since it is written by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, I know that I am going to read it
anyways, and hopefully, I really enjoy it. Another book that I can't wait to come
out is Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan and this book is coming
out November 6. I read an article of this book that briefly describes it as a YA
fantasy about two concubines of a demon king that fall in love and plot their
escape. This book does involve Asian mythology and it's based off of the
author's own experience growing up in Malaysia. It sounds really great and in
the synopsis on Goodreads, there is a trigger warning for violence and sexual
abuse, so please be aware of that before picking it up. I also can't wait to read
Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix by Julie C. Dao. This is the second book in Forest
of a Thousand Lanterns, which came out the year previously. The first book is an
East Asian reimagining of the Evil Queen and this second book follows Snow White.
I really enjoyed the first book and I can't wait to see where the story goes.
This book is also coming out November 6. The second to last anticipated release
is Archenemies by Marissa Meyer. This is the second book in the Renegades trilogy.
I can't wait to read this one because I read Renegades in April and I loved it. I
didn't expect to love it as much as I did. Renegade has to do with superheroes
and villains and the line between good and bad blurs. If you're interested in
reading superhero books I highly recommend reading Renegades. This book is
also coming out November 6. And the very last book that I have on my list for
anticipated releases is Queen of Air and Darkness by Cassandra Clare. This is the
third and final book in The Dark Artifices trilogy.
After the ending of the second book, I have been waiting for this to
come out and originally, we were going to have like a two-year wait because
Cassandra Clare is writing another Shadowhunter series and the first book
in that series was supposed to come out before this third book but then things
got switched around so the third book is actually coming out earlier than
expected and I'm really excited because I love The Dark Artifices.
I love the Blackthorn family and I just really need to be back in the
Shadowhunter world. This book is coming out December 4th and it's probably my
number one most anticipated release for the second half of the year. Those are
all of my most anticipated YA book releases for the second half of the year.
Thank you so much for watching. I hoped you enjoyed it and I will see you next
time. Bye!
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Arabic Nasheid with english translation - Duration: 4:55.
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Thank You Lord
O You who raveled down the Quran
O You who created the mankind
O my Lord, You are the Most Merciful.
Thank You Lord
O You who raveled down the Quran
O You who created the mankind
O my Lord, You are the Most Merciful.
Thank you Lord
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