NY Gov Cuomo was working with International Refugee Aide to help get an Iranian child into the US for emergency heart surgery. So here’s a question concerning the EO-Travel ban, should those in desperate medical need be given a pass or is it “all or none” – PB/TK
Iranian baby will be allowed into US for emergency procedure – By Alyssa Madruga
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says an Iranian infant in need of a life-saving heart surgery who was banned from entering the United States after President Donald Trump’s executive order will now be allowed to travel for the emergency procedure.
Cuomo said Friday that Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Medical Center has offered to perform the surgery. But the family reportedly chose to do it in Portland, Oregon, where they have a relative.
Cuomo told the New York Daily News that the four-month-old Fatemeh Reshad and her family had received a waiver on Friday allowing their travel to the U.S.
Cuomo says he worked with the International Refugee Assistance Project in order to help secure the waiver.
Continue to foxnews.com article: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/02/04/iranian-baby-will-be-allowed-into-us-for-emergency-procedure.html
