After fleeing civil war in Syria, Haitham Dalati and his wife made it to the United States in early 2017 during a brief window when the first version of President Trump’s travel ban had been put on hold by the courts.
They hoped their daughter and her family would soon follow. Instead, the rest of the family got caught up in Trump’s immigration crackdown and ended up stuck in Lebanon for more than three years.
It wasn’t until last November that the couple’s daughter, son-in-law and four grandchildren were allowed in as refugees, crying and hugging during a tearful reunion at the airport gate in Pennsylvania.
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