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Trump’s refugee ban is a matter of life and death for some, including a 1-year-old with cancer
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Feb 01, 2017 06:09pm |
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| Author | Kevin Sieff |
| News Date | Tuesday, January 31, 2017 02:25:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | They were deemed the most vulnerable cases: refugees suffering from medical conditions so severe that normally their journeys to the United States would be expedited.
One is a 9-year-old Somali child in Ethiopia with a congenital heart disease that cannot be treated in a refugee camp. Another is a 1-year-old Sudanese boy with cancer. A third is a Somali boy with a severe intestinal disorder living in a camp that doesn’t even have the colostomy bags he needs.
After President Trump’s executive order last week, their resettlement in America was put on hold. Now, the organization responsible for processing refugees in sub-Saharan Africa, Church World Service, says that order could be their death sentence. |
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