2-year-old boy whose Yemeni mother fought Trump's travel ban to be with him has died:
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Abdullah Hassan, the 2-year-old boy whose mother fought against Trump's travel ban to get a U.S. visa to be with him has died. "We are heartbroken. We had to say goodbye to our baby, the light of our lives," Ali Hassan, Abdullah's father, said in a statement Friday. "We want to thank everyone for your love and support at this difficult time. We ask you to kindly keep Abdullah and our family in your thoughts and prayers." Abdullah's mother, Shaima Swileh, was denied a visa to travel to the U.S. for more than a year because she is from Yemen -- one of the countries on which the Trump administration imposed travel restrictions. Swileh’s husband and son are both U.S. citizens, and Ali and Abdullah had been in the U.S. since October as the toddler received treatment for a rare brain disease at University of California San Francisco's Benioff Children's Hospital. Swileh was only granted a visa on Dec. 18 after attorneys for the family filed a lawsuit in federal court. She arrived in the U.S. and was reunited with her husband and son, but by then, Abdullah had lost consciousness, Jennifer Nimer, the family's attorney, said. She spent nine days with her son before his death on Friday. "It's extremely sad because it was preventable. If she had been able to travel with them from the beginning, she wouldn't have missed out on the last two months when he was still conscious and awake and able to see her," Nimer told ABC News earlier this month. A memorial service will be held for Abdullah Saturday at the California Islamic Center in Lodi, and he will be laid to rest at the California Islamic Cemetery, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Sacramento Valley office said in a statement. Abdullah suffered from epilepsy and hypomyelination, a neurodegenerative disorder, Nimer said. While he received treatment in the U.S., Swileh was unable to be with him for months, though she tried several times to have her visa waiver request expedited. Swileh was finally granted a visa after attorneys for the family filed a lawsuit in federal court Dec. 17 against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Carl Risch and Consul General at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo Lisa Vickers, among others. The contents of the lawsuit have not been made public, but it seeks immediate relief in the form of the visa waiver, which has been granted, as well as damages, Nimer said. Nimer told ABC News earlier this month that Swileh was first interviewed by U.S. consular officials for a visa in November 2017, when an injunction on Trump's ban had been put in place, so she could travel with her husband and son as they sought treatment for him. The U.S. Embassy in Cairo did not make a decision on Swileh's visa until last December, when they denied her on the grounds that the ban on travelers from Yemen was in effect once again after the Supreme Court allowed the ban to go into effect on
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