A Yemeni woman who fought for the right to see her dying son has arrived in the United States after the Trump administration gave her a waiver to its travel ban.
Shaima Swileh was mobbed by well-wishers at San Francisco International Airport in California on Wednesday.
“This is a difficult time for our family but we are blessed to be together,” the boy’s father, Ali Hassan, said at the airport. “I ask you to respect our privacy as we go to be with our son again.”
Hassan and Swileh were then driven to see their two-year-old son, Abdullah, at the children’s hospital where the boy is on life support.
The US State Department granted Swileh a waiver on Tuesday after lawyers with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) sued this week.
Swileh’s case prompted widespread outrage after reports surfaced that the young mother had been waiting for more than a year for a decision on a visa waiver.