Burned Iraqi Boy Separated From Family By Trump Decree

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Among the thousands of heartbreaking stories that have been released after President Donald Trump issued an immigration decree to ban some refugees and immigrants from entering the United States, is that of the boy Dilbireen Muhsi, who at 2 years old could be the younger than those affected by that order.

According to CNN, the Yazidi boy came to the United States last year for medical treatment for serious burns to his face and feet when a gas heater burned his crib in a refugee camp where his family had fled when ISIS attacked his village in Iraq.

The tragic incident reached the ears of the Road to Peace charity, which arranged to transfer him to a Boston hospital, where the boy was treated free of charge by Shriner's Hospitals for Children.

As his mother was pregnant, only his father Ajeel Muhsin accompanied him and about four months ago he returned to Iraq with the idea of picking up his wife and newborn son - who the family called Trump in gratitude to this country for treating little Dilbireen. - to travel all together to the United States and be with their first child during their treatment to reconstruct their face, among other surgeries. The family plan, Muhsin said, was to remain in Michigan during the Dilbireen treatment and return to Iraq after it ended.

However, the situation was complicated by Trump's new immigration policy, which has been so widely criticized and has generated administrative and judicial counter-orders in the United States.

According to the current caregiver of the boy, Adlay Kejjan -arr., Expressed on his Twitter account, with him, who is also director of the Yazidi American Women Organization- the father of the child was denied entry to the United States consulate in Erbil, Iraq, despite the fact that he had an appointment on Sunday to process his return to this country, as well as the entrance of his wife and that of little Trump.

The fact of not seeing his parents while he is recovering now in Michigan is having psychological repercussions in Dilbireen because, according to Kejjan, the boy "feels abandoned by them". She has noticed that when his parents call him, he no longer wants to interact with them. However, when he hears them talk to her, the boy tries to see them over Kejjan's shoulder.

It breaks everyone's heart when we see that. He definitely recognizes his dad, and I'm not sure if his mom does, too. He is very confused, because he believes that I am his mother.”