Yemeni American Commits Suicide After Trump Travel Ban Bars His Family

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Yemeni American Commits Suicide After Trump Travel Ban Bars His Family
Tragic death underscores toll of harsh immigration policies.


In the latest U.S. immigration tragedy a Yemeni American father killed himself after his family was barred from entering the country by the Trump administration’s travel ban.

U.S. citizen Mahmood Salem, father of five, fatally shot himself at his Louisiana home earlier this month after saying goodbye to his family on the phone, NBC News reported Saturday.

Salem’s three youngest children are also American citizens, but his wife and two other children were denied visas to join him because of Donald Trump’s travel ban. They were living in Djibouti in Africa when they got Salem’s call and frantically reached out to a friend for help, according to NBC. The friend found Salem, 31, dead in his home in Crowley.

Mimun Salem blamed the immigration predicament for his younger brother’s death.

“I’ll say it’s the first and main reason. I could give it 90 percent,” he told NBC. “He cannot bring them here and at the same time, he cannot take them back to Yemen because it’s war.”

There are thousands of Yemeni immigrants, many of them American citizens, who have been separated by family members due to the travel ban which bars people from seven predominantly Muslim nations. The Supreme Court upheld the ban last month.

The ban and Salem’s death is part of a broader picture of the toll of harsh i

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1. so he completely abandoned 5 kids? not feeling too sympathetic for the guy nt