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Yeganeh Torbati
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This is surreal for me to even type, but I'm on @ThisAmerLife this weekend for a segment produced by the amazing @zchace about the tiny library on the U.S.-Canada border where Iranian families separated by the travel ban have been reuniting thisamericanlife.org/664/the-room-o…
The original story I did for @Reuters on the library last month is here: reuters.com/article/us-usa…
The @ThisAmerLife segment uses audio from a video interview @zgoelman conducted. See the incredible video version of the story he produced here: reuters.tv/v/P5Xb
Shout-out to my parents who took me to Persian Sunday school every week when I was a child even though I complained endlessly. Would not have been able to do the story I’m most proud of this year without these superheroes
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The House Foreign Affairs Committee will hear today from the family members of four American citizens or permanent residents missing or detained in Iran: Bob Levinson, Siamak and Baquer Namazi, and Nizar Zakka foreignaffairs.house.gov/2019/3/the-sta…
In addition to those men, we know of several other cases of Americans detained in Iran: Xiyue Wang, a Princeton doctoral student; Morad Tahbaz, a businessman/environmental activist; and Michael White, a Navy veteran. The last two were imprisoned since Trump came into office
In August @joel_schectman and I did a deep dive into how difficult these cases are and exploring how the Obama and Trump administrations approached the issue of Iran's imprisonment of Americans reuters.com/investigates/s…
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Unclear, confusing exchange just now between Jackson Lee and Nielsen regarding children held in HHS custody versus those in DHS custody. Imprecise questions and answers mixing up family separation by CBP, ICE deportation of sponsors. End result is zero actually useful information
A clearer, more focused question addressing DHS' responsibility for larger numbers of migrant children in fed custody might ask precisely about ICE's deportation of sponsors and how that works; or deep probing of why some children are still being separated from parents at border
Under specific, focused questioning from Rep. Kathleen Rice, @SecNielsen states she did not know Jeff Sessions was going to announce zero separation in a speech last April before he did so. "I did not know he was making that announcement that day."
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The obvious reaction to this - ironic that the US would ask other countries to give refuge to Venezuelans when its own refugee policy has been so restrictive - is yet another example of how the Trump admin’s immigration policies conflict w its stated foreign policy priorities
Exhibit 2: the travel ban, in particular on Iranians, given the Trump admin’s stated support for the Iranian people. When Iranian activist @AlinejadMasih met w @SecPompeo recently, one of her three points was the travel ban’s impact on ordinary people
I could go on - huge drop in admittance of Christian refugees from the Middle East even as the Trump admin professes concern for religious minorities, etc.
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