The ramifications of the Trump administration’s travel ban on 12 Black and brown countrieshave been swift, including in Haiti, where the lives of sick children hang in the balance.
The International Cardiac Alliance, which has sent more than 100 Haitian children with serious cardiac conditions to the United States for heart surgery, tells NBC News that Trump’s ban, which went into effect on Monday, will stall or cancel lifesaving procedures for at least a dozen children or young adults.
Haiti is among the list of mostly African or Middle Eastern countries whose nationals have been banned from entering the U.S. The administration cites national security concerns and counterterrorism as reasons for the travel ban, which, in addition to Haiti, includes Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. Read more at www.thegrio.com.
