Fatemah, a 4-month-old Iranian girl has
missed an appointment for open heart surgery due to Trump's executive order
barring foreigners from certain states from entering the United States.
Fatemah, who is in urgent need of the surgery, was
scheduled to fly out to Oregon Health & Science University, in time for her
surgery appointment, however, the trip was cancelled.
Her uncle, Sam Taghizadeh,
speaking for the family, explained how hard getting a visa was and is
disappointed that after going through such long process they still can't
travel.
“For getting the visa, they ask for lot of the paperwork. You have
to do many things, you know. For three weeks we working for every single thing
they wanted. All the paper, everything was ready, and just in the last minute
they cancelled everything.”
“Half an hour, even they took the appointment out. I send an
email, I tried calling them, nobody answered. But now she’s stuck,” he
explained.
This is especially more
devastating for them because Fatemah's grandparents are American citizens, yet their
grandchild has to suffer and faces the risk of dying because she cannot get
into their country. Taghizadeh lamented his niece's plight, saying;
“Why we came to U.S., we came here for freedom. For a better life.
I’m feeling no where is safe.”
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