Yemeni mother wins visa fight to see her dying child in a California hospital

The US State Department granted a Yemeni mother, whose 2-year-old son is on life support in an Oakland hospital, a waiver Tuesday to travel to the United States, according to officials with the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Shaima Swileh will get on the earliest available flight out of Egypt, said Basim Elkarra, the executive director of council’s Sacramento Valley chapter. The shortest flights with the fewest stops to San Francisco can last 20 hours or more. Money secured through a fundraising effort will pay for her flight and the boy’s funeral, he said. The news came shortly after the boy’s

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