Opinion: How Samantha Bee, a lawyer and three lawmakers challenged Trump’s travel ban
By Josh Rogin Josh Rogin Columnist covering foreign policy and national security Email Bio Follow Columnist April 23 at 6:00 AM The craziest thing about President Trump’s ban on admitting people from seven countries to the United States is not the sheer irrationality of the blanket bans, the anti-Muslim racism that inspired it or even the cruelty and suffering it causes by keeping families apart.
Comedian Samantha Bee illustrated this earlier this month, with help from the Center for Constitutional Rights, Sen. Chris Murphy , House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Brenda Lawrence . They pooled efforts to advocate publicly and privately for the State Department to grant waivers to several Yemeni citizens in Djibouti seeking visas to join their U.S. citizen family members here in the United States.
“If this is what it takes to resolve the waiver issue for these families, then I wish we could have met, interviewed and invited thousands of them to the Not The White House Correspondents’ Dinner,” Bee told me. “The travel ban has taught me that it’s never worth giving up on family, even if I had to give up pursuing my American Dream,” Nabil Shaibi told me. “We lost a lot. I am saddened and confused by why we had to go through this ordeal in the first place.”
For example, Harbi Kalwan, whose wife, Fathia, is a U.S. citizen, had been told his visa was approved before the travel ban took effect. But after Trump announced the executive order, he was told his visa was denied. At his new interview last week, a consular officer told him “he was famous,” indicating they were aware of the media scrutiny. This week, he will reunite with his wife and newborn son in the United States after more than a year of separation.
“It’s ridiculous that it has to take Samantha Bee, lawyers and my office to try to get visas for people trying to travel to the United States to reunite with their families,” he said. “The ban doesn’t just threaten people like these families we’re working with — it threatens the very idea of America.”
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