While I spend most of my time trying to focus on issues that effect citizens at the state level, it was only a matter of time until the outrageous edicts of the man currently sitting in the White House touched me personally.
While I am purposely leaving out the names of people involved in this report I will be happy to share all I know with officials who can help. I will also be willing to share with the press if the involved parties give their consent.
on the evening of Saturday January 28, 2017 I received an urgent message from a woman who is a small business owner and knows that I am actively seeking a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates. it read as follows:
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"One of our employees who has a green card, his parents have lived here for 30 years own businesses themselves etc. was on the flight in Cairo today returning home from visiting his children. He himself has had his green card I believe for 6 years. Since he is from Yemen he was not allowed to board his flight to the US and told to go back to Yemen with no other instruction. He is scared and doesn't know what to do. His parents are scared. Who can I reach out to? He lives in Norfolk. I'm not sure McEachin will have any power to help."
What have we become when a young man who lives and works in in Norfolk Virginia, has been a legal resident with current and correct documentation is told in Cairo airport that he will not be allowed to return home to his parents, also legal permanent residents, because his country of origin is Yemen. This young man Was sent back to Qatar and told that he may not re-enter the United States.
I immediately reached out to Yasmine Taeb who is a human rights attorney a member of the Democratic National Committee, and a staunch advocate for Islamic rights. As luck would have it this was happening shortly after a Federal judge in NY ordered a stay regarding the executive order to stop re-entry. This was good news to my friend who was able to calm her employee and the young man's parents. Why was any of this necessary? Had the young man returned on Friday morning he would not have had any issues returning home to his family.
This is a stark illustration of what tyranny looks like. My opponent in the race for the 21st district not only supported Donald Trump, he was on his leadership committee for president. Anyone who believes that denying legal documented residents to return to their families is appropriate has no grasp of the American dream, has no concern for families, and has no business serving communities that are living in uncertainty and fear of being deported.
We must resist this madman. We must do all that we can to remove his supporters from any seat of authority that they hold. we must stand up together and shout at the top of our lungs ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
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