ADVERTISEMENTLess than 24 hours after President Donald Trump signed an executive order barring immigration and refugee admission from seven Muslim-majority countries, border officials in Chicago turned away a Syrian woman who’d flown to the U.S to visit her sick mother, the woman’s sister told The Huffington Post Saturday. Nour Ulayyet The mother of Nour Ulayyet and Sahar Algonaimi, recovering in a hospital bed Saturday. “The officer told me that it’s the executive order,” Ulayyet said, recounting a phone call with the border officials detaining her sister. Ulayyet said she and her sister pleaded with the border officials to let Algonaimi visit their sick mother, even for a few hours. Nour Ulayyet

Source: Huffington Post January 28, 2017 22:45 UTC