Travel Ban claims another victim

[salhasl 113]

Came across a disturbing story. Regardless of the specifics around what happened here, its truly sad that this US CITIZEN man was 4 days away from reuniting with his family. I just hope this makes the authorities provide some clarity around the waiver process, timelines, and qualification criteria. 

 

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10217301423987086&id=1217204080

 

I am making this thread in hopes that someone who has connections with folks in the media who may want to pickup this story. 

 

 

[Mushulatubbe 29]

My husband told me about this. It’s so sad. 

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

2 hours ago, salhasl said:

Came across a disturbing story. Regardless of the specifics around what happened here, its truly sad that this US CITIZEN man was 4 days away from reuniting with his family. I just hope this makes the authorities provide some clarity around the waiver process, timelines, and qualification criteria. 

 

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10217301423987086&id=1217204080

 

I am making this thread in hopes that someone who has connections with folks in the media who may want to pickup this story. 

 

 

is their a news link of any kind to this ?  The link I clicked on gave very little concrete info 

[salhasl 113]

Thats the problem - main stream news is not covering this. I found it on a congresswomans twitter. 

 

https://twitter.com/RepYvetteClarke/status/1021053168350908416

 

[salhasl 113]

I think its a VERY news worthy story. They covered an illegal immigrant who killed himself because of being separated from his child widely:

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=marco+antonio+muñoz&oq=Marco+Antonio+Muñoz&aqs=chrome.0.0l6.284j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

Although its a very sad situation when someone is separated from his/her own child, this is a US Citizen and not someone who came here/was here illegally. 

 

 

[salhasl 113]

May be we can contact the reporters who wrote the columns about the undocumented dad? Ask them to see if they'd be interested in covering the USC dad? If you click on the google link, almost all articles have a way to contact the author.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

Sorry, but a FB post of a person’s timeline that seems to be keen on assisting with possible illegal immigration and who speaks negatively about the FBI and ICE does not mean much.  

[NigeriaorBust 4,087]

  An unstable person kills them self and the news blames being separated from their child.  Most likely killing himself was in the cards if the person didn't get proper treatment.  People looking to make news will create an alignment with their cause  

[Dashinka 24,598]

9 hours ago, salhasl said:

I think its a VERY news worthy story. They covered an illegal immigrant who killed himself because of being separated from his child widely:

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=marco+antonio+muñoz&oq=Marco+Antonio+Muñoz&aqs=chrome.0.0l6.284j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

Although its a very sad situation when someone is separated from his/her own child, this is a US Citizen and not someone who came here/was here illegally. 

 

 

It may be newsworthy, but are we certain that it is true?  Also, do we know for sure that the "travel ban" contributed directly to this man's suicide?  It seems a little strange that this man's family had their visa in hand (those that required them as the snippet said the children were USC's) and plane tickets purchased and this guy decides to take his own life before they arrive.  I know, it is sacrilege to question something on FB, but I guess I would like to see some confirmation before I start believing it.

[Unidentified 2,930]

We don't even know if this is true. 

[Mushulatubbe 29]

I think the story has been changing. The first time I heard about it, it was said that they weren’t granted the visa until he took his life. So basically they received the visa to put his body to rest. 

[salhasl 113]

Finally

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna895381?__twitter_impression=true

 

[Unidentified 2,930]

If he couldn't support them in Djibouti, how was he going to support them here? 

[Steeleballz 7,550]

1 hour ago, Unidentified said:

If he couldn't support them in Djibouti, how was he going to support them here? 

 

    Possibly the issue was having to send money there to support them and maintaining a residence here. If they were here, there would only be one residence to pay for. Hard to say with the limited information given.

 

   The only thing for sure I can see is that suicide didn't help anyone. Regardless of the difficulties they were having, things are not going to be better for his family now.

[salhasl 113]

Im not sure if many people know,  his family was in djibouti because Yemen has no functional embassy. Djibouti is more expensive to live in than parts of NYC. Not just that, since Yemen has no functional airports, people have to take boats and pay bribes to get to djibouti often through very dangerous circumstances. After these hurdles, his family gets to djibouti only to be denied or put in an indeterminate limbo while this guy is paying for all of it. Many Yemenis I read have spent 50-100K USD each on this mess on top of all the things we all pay for immigration related.