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MEMORANDUM re 65 MOTION for Temporary Restraining Order [MUSLIM ADVOCATES, AMERICAN MUSLIM HEALTH PROFESSIONALS, MUPPIES, INC., THE NATIONAL ARAB AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, AND NETWORK OF ARAB-AMERICAN PROFESSIONALS' BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER], filed by American Muslim Health Professionals, Muppies, Inc., Muslim Advocates, Network of Arab-American Professionals, The National Arab American Medical Association. (Attachments: # 1 Declaration of Anton A. Ware, # 2 Exhibit 1 - Shutdown Press Release, # 3 Exhibit 2 - Anderson Cooper Interview, # 4 Exhibit 3 - State Rudy Guiliani, # 5 Exhibit 4 - Miller on Fox News, # 6 Exhibit 5 - WaPo Kansas Suspect, # 7 Exhibit 6 - Seattle Kent, # 8 Exhibit 7 - Fire store owner, # 9 Exhibit 8 - WaPo pipe attack, # 10 Exhibit 9 - Spate of mosque fires stretches across the country, # 11 Exhibit 10 - Politico absolute no choice but to close down mosques, # 12 Exhibit 11 - Georgetown Bridge Initiative Trump Cites Flowed Poll, # 13 Exhibit 12 - Republican Candidates Debate in North Charleston, South Carolina, # 14 Exhibit 13 - Transcript Donald Trump's national security speech, # 15 Exhibit 14 - 60 Minutes Trranscript, # 16 Exhibit 15 - Meet the Press, # 17 Exhibit 16 - Presidential Candidates Debates, # 18 Exhibit 17 - Christian Broadcasting Network, # 19 Exhibit 18 - Donald Trump on Twitter defends Muslim ban, calls work a 'horrible mess', # 20 Exhibit 19 - Pew Reseach Center 2016 Refugees, # 21 Exhibit 20 - DJT Tweet, # 22 Exhibit 21 - So called judge tweet, # 23 Exhibit 22 - See you in court tweet, # 24 Exhibit 23 - Sean Spicer press conference, # 25 Exhibit 24 - Stephen Miller key engineer, # 26 Exhibit 25 - Stephen Miller Islamofascism, # 27 Exhibit 26 - Pew Forum, # 28 Exhibit 27 - State Dept Country Report, # 29 Exhibit 28 - DHS, # 30 Exhibit 29 - DOJ Iraqi Kentucky, # 31 Exhibit 30 - Cato, # 32 Exhibit 31 - Lawfare, # 33 Exhibit 32 - Brennan Center, # 34 Exhibit 33 - Letter Former Officials on March 6 EO, # 35 Exhibit 34 - Trump delays new travel ban after well-reviewed speech - CNN Politics, # 36 Exhibit 35 - Families hoping to make the U.S., # 37 Exhibit 36 - Trump Muslim ban is tearing apart families, # 38 Exhibit 37 - Children and Refugees Who Planned Medical Care in the US Stuck After Trump Executive Order - Health News - ABC News Radio, # 39 Exhibit 38 - Trump's Travel Ban, Aimed at Terrorists, Has Blocked Doctors - The New York Times, # 40 Certificate of Service)(Kacprowski, Nickolas) Modified on docket title text on 3/14/2017 (ecs, ).

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YORK) -- Refugees and children in need of medical treatment are among
the thousands affected after Donald Trump issued an executive order to
largely ban travelers from seven majority Muslim nations.
In Jordan, at least 20 refugees from Syria and Iraq with serious medical
conditions are waiting to see if they will be allowed in the country,

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according to their lawyer Jayne Fleming and the Center for Victims of
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Mohammed, 6, is currently undergoing cancer treatment for Ewing
sarcoma according to his father, Jihad, and Fleming. The family fled to
Jordan from Syria in 2014, after a missile hit their home, Jihad told ABC
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Fleming is a pro bono lawyer and head of the human rights team for law
firm Reed Smith. The people she currently represents from the affected
nations, which she said includes an Iraqi man with hemophilia who has
gone untreated for two years and a Syrian family with two nearly-blind
children in need of eye surgery, were "in the pipeline" for resettlement in

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She had been hoping to have the Syrian family, identified by their first
names for safety reasons, medically evacuated to the U.S. so that
Mohammed could get better treatment and the family would no longer
have to worry about how to pay for it.
Jihad has sold his furniture and raised money online to pay for surgery
and chemotherapy for his son; he said he had to borrow furniture from a
friend.
When the executive order indefinitely barring Syrian refugees from
entering the U.S. was announced, Jihad said the family felt "very bad."
"That was a shock," he told ABC News through a translator. "Even
Mohammad was talking about his desire to go to the U.S."
After Mohammed's cancer diagnosis, the doctors advised the family to
keep the boy out of school, since chemotherapy would weaken his
immune system. The family had hoped further treatment would help.
"Mohammad is very smart and he was hoping to finish his studies and
go to school."
Another Syrian father told ABC News that he felt he was running out of
time before two of his children could go completely blind.

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"The medical treatment is very limited and there aren't many
organizations that supports the treatment," Basheer said.
While Basheer was able to get his children in a school for the blind, he is
anxious to get to the U.S. because it is a "democratic country." He said
his son could go fully blind if his condition remains untreated.
"Hamzi, in particular, he won a robot competition and a championship
and was invited to speak in competitions abroad but he couldn't join
because of the financial situation," Basheer said.
Another Syrian child, a 17-year-old named Mustafa, lost part of his jaw
and facial bone in a mortar attack on his home when he was just 13,
according to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. The Syrian teen lives
in Damascus, but Palestine Children's Relief Fund said they were able to
help fund his travel to the U.S. in 2014, where doctors at the Shriner's
Hospital in Galveston, Texas performed reconstructive surgery.
Though the surgery helped him regain some sense of normalcy, he
needs further procedures to fully recover, according to officials at the
Palestine Children's Relief Fund. The nonprofit organization helps
"arrange medical care all over the world for sick and injured children from
the Middle East who cannot be adequately treated in their homeland."
But the plan to bring Mustafa back for further procedures in April has
been put on hold as officials try to determine if he will be barred from
entering the U.S., according to the organization's president, Steve
Sosebee.
"His speech, his breathing and his eating are all impacted by the terrible
injury that he somehow survived," Sosebee told ABC News. "Further
delay means further suffering for a boy who already has suffered
enough."
Sosebee said the indefinite hold has put additional strain on Mustafa's
case because he's near the usual age limit to receive free care from
Shriner's hospital and it's not clear if it will remain available should he
turn 18 before he is allowed to return to the U.S.
President Trump's executive order, which he said is aimed at protecting
the nation from terrorists, suspends for 90 days immigration to the U.S.
from seven countries -- Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Iran and
Libya. It also suspends for 120 days the entry of refugees into the U.S.
and indefinitely bans Syrian refugees from coming into the country.
Though the executive order does not appear to include an exception for
those in need of medical treatment, on Tuesday the U.S. Customs and
Border Protection Acting Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said waivers
would be considered for refugees who were "ready to travel" and who
would be put through "undue hardship."
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