It’s taken an emotional toll — one that continues this week as two U.S. appeals courts take up the issue yet again. We can’t bring our loved ones here.”Citing national security concerns, President Donald Trump announced his initial travel ban on citizens of certain Muslim-majority nations in late January, bringing havoc and protests to airports around the country. Circuit Court of Appeals is due to hear the government’s appeal in the Maryland case on Friday in Richmond, Virginia. Al Zayed’s case is among several laid out in friend-of-the-court briefs filed by labour organizations opposed to the travel ban. His two brothers and parents remain in Syria, and he’s afraid he’ll never see his 85-year-old father again if the travel ban is upheld.

Source: National Post December 03, 2017 18:20 UTC