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Syrian Family Tries To Reunite With Daughter Hindered By Travel Ban

WUNC News | By Frank Stasio,
Charlie Shelton
Published February 10, 2017 at 12:27 PM EST
Abdullah Khadra and his family traveled to Lebanon to see family last fall. Before they could return home, the advance parole for their daughter Muna expired. She is now stuck in Jordan.
Abdullah Khadra
Abdullah Khadra and his family traveled to Lebanon to see family last fall. Before they could return home, the advance parole for their daughter Muna expired. She is now stuck in Jordan.
Abdullah Khadra and his family traveled to Lebanon to see family last fall. Before they could return home, the advance parole for their daughter Muna expired. She is now stuck in Jordan.
Credit Abdullah Khadra
Abdullah Khadra and his family traveled to Lebanon to see family last fall. Before they could return home, the advance parole for their daughter Muna expired. She is now stuck in Jordan.

AbdullahKhadraand his family are originally from Syria and currently live in Raleigh on religious worker visas. Last fall,Khadraand his family traveled to Lebanon for a family emergency. But while they were there, the visa expired forKhadra’sthree-year old daughterMuna.Host Frank Stasio talks with Syrian born U.S. resident Abdullah Khadra about his family’s struggle to bring their daughter back to North Carolina.

Now, Khadra and his wife are struggling to get their daughter on a plane back to the U.S. and they are having difficulty because of President Trump’s executive order.

Host Frank Stasio talks with Khadra about his family’s struggle to bring their daughter back to North Carolina.

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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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