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A Yemeni-American Wanted To Bring His Family Home. Then Came The Travel Ban.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=324k9qPkU0I Nageeb Alomari has lived the Trump Administration's travel ban. Alomari is from Yemen, and he moved to the U.S. in the 1990s. He worked at gas stations in Alabama, then California. In 2000, he married a woman in Yemen, and they eventually had three daughters. Like a lot of men from his country, Alomari lived and worked in the U.S. and sent money back to his wife and kids, who stayed in Yemen. In 2010, Alomari became an American citizen. A year later, massive protests in Yemen led to the ouster of the country's longtime president. The country became more unstable, and in 2014, a militant group called the Houthis launched an attack and took over Yemen's capital and other parts of the country. And so began the civil war in Yemen that continues today. Alomari was still in the U.S., and he worried about his family, especially his oldest daughter, Shaema, back in Yemen. She has severe cerebral palsy. She can't speak or move on her own. She also

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