Student
Iraqi student at Glendale Community College
PROFILE
Abdullah Alrifaie
FROM Abdullah Alrifaie
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Travel ban hits home for LA student Nineteen-year-old Abdullah Alrifaie is an Iraqi who’s been studying at Glendale Community College on a student visa. Last month, he went back to Jordan to renew the visa -- he and his family have lived there most of his life because Iraq is too violent. Then last weekend President Trump’s executive order said no Iraqis could enter the country for the time being, and Alrifaie got stuck in Jordan until this past Friday, when a Seattle judge put the order on hold. We catch up with him about his experience.
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