Just a few months back, Safa Sefidgari, an Iran native and Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers University, was pregnant with her first child and diving deep into her lab work in New Jersey. She had made a few friends, and her English improved every day. It should have been a joyful time.
At the beginning of March, instead of celebrating her pregnancy and academic success with her husband, Sefidgari went into labor at 30 weeks, about four weeks earlier than doctors said was safe.
Her Iranian husband, Ehsan Entezari, had no way to get to her — he was stuck in Canada without a visa while Sefidgari endured a whirlwind of doctor’s visits and hospitalization alone.
A week after birth, the baby died. Her husband couldn’t travel to the U.S. to be by his wife’s side.
Standing in their way is the Trump administration’s travel ban. Issued in June, the policy restricts entry of citizens
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