Detroit family caught in Iraq travel ban, says mom died waiting to come home

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Detroit family caught in Iraq travel ban, says mom died waiting to come home
By: Amy Lange
POSTED:JAN 31 2017 05:33PM EST
UPDATED:FEB 01 2017 10:30AM EST

http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/232856168-story

DETROIT (WJBK) - Questions have been raised about the validity of Mike Hager's claims that his mother died while waiting for approval to come to Michigan. FOX 2 news is working to resolve the questions about Hager's story. We'll update this page with further details.

A local business owner flies to Iraq to bring his mother back home to the US for medical treatment. But under President Trump's ban on immigration and travel from seven predominately Muslim nations, he said he was forced to leave his family behind.

Mike Hager fled Iraq with his family during the Gulf War, returned during the Iraq war and worked alongside United States Marines and Army forces. He now owns a business in Metro Detroit and said his mom would still be alive today if President Donald Trump had not instituted his travel ban on Muslim countries.

Hager said he was returning home with his family that included his sick mom. They were returning home to the United States where his mother has lived since 1995. As they were waiting in line at the airport in Iraq on Friday, he was told that he could pass through because he was a U.S. citizen. But his family members - including his mom - weren't allowed, despite holding green cards.

"They destroyed us. I went with my family, I came back by myself. They destroyed our family," Hager said.

Hager was born in Iraq and fled during the Gulf War. He lived in a refugee camp with his family for four years before settling in the United States. In the 2000s, he returned to Iraq where he worked as a contractor for the United States armed forces between 2003 and 2008 as an interpreter and cultural advisor. He even survived being shot in the back while serving.

He's a proud American citizen whose family has now been torn apart.

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Excerpt.  Read more at http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/232856168-story  I'm guessing that they will find this is all a hoax.  Besides, if she died so soon, who says she would have gotten life-saving care right after landing?

[Frank Cannon]

None of this story makes sense. I am going to go out on a limb and say this guy is a lying sack of shit.

[mountaineer]

This is the type of leftist argument my husband complains about, trying to justify something by arguing from the specific to the general. Because this one guy supposedly couldn't bring his mother to the U.S. and she died, somehow that warrants scrapping the whole program designed to protect the entire country.

[Norm Lenhart]

Lets assume it's true. Had Democrats not forced the situation to come to this, she would be in America alive. Democrats did in fact cause this death through willful destruction of any rational vetting/immigration prior to Trump. Unfortunate she died. War is hell.

The blame is 100% theirs.

[mountaineer]

Man who claimed mom died in Iraq after Trump's ban lied, Imam confirms
Story at FOX2 Detroit

... Imam Husham Al-Hussainy, leader of the Karbalaa Islamic Educational Center in Dearborn, says Mike Hager's mom did not pass away this weekend after being barred from traveling to the United States. The Imam confirms that Hager's mother died before the ban was put in place.  ...

Oh. Never mind.

[rangerrebew]

Dearborn Imam: Man Who Claimed His Mother Died After Trump’s Travel Ban Lied
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BY: Nick Bolger   
February 1, 2017 4:20 pm

A man who claimed his mother died in Iraq after being barred from returning to the United States under President Trump's travel ban lied about the timing of the death, according to the leader of a mosque in Dearborn, Mich.

Imam Husham Al-Hussainy of Dearborn told FOX 2 of Detroit that local business owner Mike Hager's mother passed away before the ban was implemented.

    According to Al-Hussainy, Hager's mother had kidney disease and was receiving treatment in Michigan–where she lived–before traveling to Iraq to visit family. The Imam said she passed away on January 22, 2017, five days before President Trump instituted the travel ban.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/imam-claimed-mother-died-ban-lied/

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Dearborn Imam: Man Who Claimed His Mother Died After Trump’s Travel Ban Lied
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BY: Nick Bolger   
February 1, 2017 4:20 pm

A man who claimed his mother died in Iraq after being barred from returning to the United States under President Trump's travel ban lied about the timing of the death, according to the leader of a mosque in Dearborn, Mich.

Imam Husham Al-Hussainy of Dearborn told FOX 2 of Detroit that local business owner Mike Hager's mother passed away before the ban was implemented.

    According to Al-Hussainy, Hager's mother had kidney disease and was receiving treatment in Michigan–where she lived–before traveling to Iraq to visit family. The Imam said she passed away on January 22, 2017, five days before President Trump instituted the travel ban.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/imam-claimed-mother-died-ban-lied/

OK, what I find interesting is that I saw the initial story being reported by various papers. When I went to Google the only paper mentioned was the Daily Mail. I then went to another search engine and found several U.S. papers that had carried the story. Does Google cover for the Fake News people? Inquiring minds want to know.

[Frank Cannon]

OK, what I find interesting is that I saw the initial story being reported by various papers. When I went to Google the only paper mentioned was the Daily Mail. I then went to another search engine and found several U.S. papers that had carried the story. Does Google cover for the Fake News people? Inquiring minds want to know.

It sure do. This story was a fraud from the beginning and the MSM ran with it anyway. It fit their narrative.

[rangerrebew]

It sure do. This story was a fraud from the beginning and the MSM ran with it anyway. It fit their narrative.

They're part of the same evil cabal.

[XenaLee]

Dearborn Imam: Man Who Claimed His Mother Died After Trump’s Travel Ban Lied
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BY: Nick Bolger   
February 1, 2017 4:20 pm

A man who claimed his mother died in Iraq after being barred from returning to the United States under President Trump's travel ban lied about the timing of the death, according to the leader of a mosque in Dearborn, Mich.

Imam Husham Al-Hussainy of Dearborn told FOX 2 of Detroit that local business owner Mike Hager's mother passed away before the ban was implemented.

    According to Al-Hussainy, Hager's mother had kidney disease and was receiving treatment in Michigan–where she lived–before traveling to Iraq to visit family. The Imam said she passed away on January 22, 2017, five days before President Trump instituted the travel ban.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/imam-claimed-mother-died-ban-lied/

Yet another reason why the liberal left in America seems to embrace Muslim activists and jihadists.  Both groups lie like it is their job to do so.  And both enjoy lying way too much.

[Fishrrman]

taqiyya ...