Also in attendance will be Shaima Swileh and Ali Hassan, who struggled to reunite in the U.S. as their 2-year-old son, Abdullah, was hospitalized in Oakland. Swileh, a Yemeni national, was blocked from seeing her son for months as the family sought treatment for his degenerative brain disease. She was granted a visa after the family’s story received national media attention and was able to see her son before he died.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 05, 2019 21:14 UTC