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A Yemeni-American Wanted To Bring His Family Home. Then Came The Travel Ban.

Nageeb Alomari is an American citizen from Yemen. When the civil war started there, Alomari decided to bring his wife and daughters to the U.S. But then President Trump imposed the travel ban.
Nageeb Alomari holds his 10-year-old daughter, Shaema, outside the U.S. Embassy in Djibouti. Nageeb is from Yemen, but became an American citizen in 2010, and later applied for visas for his wife and daughters. Because Shaema is unable to walk on her own, Nageeb carried her to the family's appointment at the embassy.

Nageeb Alomari has lived the Trump Administration's travel ban.

Alomari is from Yemen, and he moved to the U.S. in the 1990s. He worked at gas stations in Alabama, then California.

In 2000, he married a woman in Yemen, and they eventually had three daughters. Like a lot of men from his country, Alomari lived and worked in the U.S. and sent money back to his wife and kids, who stayed in Yemen.

In 2010, Alomari became an American citizen.

A year later, massive protests in Yemen led to the ouster of the country's longtime president. The country became more unstable, and in 2014, a militant group called the Houthis launched an attack and took over Yemen's capital and other parts of the country.

And so began the civil war in Yemen that continues today.

Alomari was still in the U.S., and he worried about his family, especially his oldest daughter, Shaema, back in Yemen. She has severe cerebral palsy. She can't speak or move on

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