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The Travel Ban

A Trump voter is stunned to find her Syrian relatives deported

A Syrian-American Trump supporter had her family turned away from the US. Now, she has a message for the President.

Also: Iranian scientists in the US consider leaving the country; Julius Krein launches a new political magazine to define the ideology of the Trump era, two Iranian brothers say Trump reminds them of their former leader, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. We end with a song composed by Syrian musician Kinan Azmeh, back in 2005, while in detention in a New York city airport.

(Image: Several hundred demonstrators protest President Donald Trump's travel ban on February 1, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Image)

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Sat 4 Feb 2017 18:32GMT

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