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mo4ch:>Yemeni toddler in US hospital dies just days after his mom was let into the country to see him | Mo4ch News

A desperate Yemeni mother, who fought for an American visa for months so she could see her dying son, got to spend just 10 days with him before the two-year-old passed away in a US hospital.Abdullah Hassan passed away on Friday from a rare brain disease, hypomyelination, in a children's hospital in Oakland, California. His father, Ali Hassan, an American citizen, brought him there five months ago in hopes of saving his son’s life. His mother, a Yemeni national, was unable to be with her baby, because an executive order signed by President Trump in 2017 excluded citizens from seven –mainly Muslim– nations.Before Abdullah and Ali returned to the US, their family lived in Egypt where they settled after fleeing the war in Yemen in 2016. While Ali Hassan managed to secure an American passport for his son, the mother was denied multiple visa requests starting from August 2017 because of the new travel restrictions.Finally, following an intervention and a lawsuit from the Council on Amer…