Ms. Aliyu was preparing to apply to move to the United States, where she once studied and where her two brothers live. “Trump has been looking for a way to get at us Africans for a very long time, and finally got us,” Ms. Aliyu said. His wife, Juliet, and their daughter were planning to join him, but are stuck in Kaduna, where Ms. Moses sells soda in a small store. “Why would Trump do this to us, after we have waited for nine years?”Nigerians already living in the United States have been calling lawyers to try to figure out whether they will have to leave. Marilyn Eshikena, a biomedical research ethicist, has lived in the United States for the past seven years, but her visa expires this year.

Source: New York Times February 03, 2020 01:18 UTC