Afghan man to GOP senator: ‘Who’s going to save me?’
One man w/ Afghan roots confronts Sen. Grassley about immigration. Sen. doesn't answer moving on w/ list he made at beginning of meeting. pic.twitter.com/mwx7uFgbrJ
— Hannah Hilyard (@HannahHilyard) February 21, 2017
An Afghan man confronted Sen. Chuck Grassley during a town hall Tuesday, questioning the Iowa Republican on President Trump’s executive order temporarily halting admittance to the country for refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority countries.
“I am a person from a Muslim country, and I am a Muslim — who’s going to save me here?” the man asked Tuesday during a town hall, according to a video posted by KCCI reporter Hannah Hilyard.
“Who is going to stand behind me?”
{mosads}The man said he had been shot twice and had been “roadside bombed once.”
“Nobody care about me,” he said.
“But I was with the United States armed forces back in Afghanistan that I got shot, I didn’t get shot because of my mom and dad.”
The man said he worked as an interpreter in Afghanistan for the U.S. military and is trying to get asylum.
Grassley addressing Afghan immigrant now. He says he was a translator for US military now seeking asylum. Having trouble getting paperwork.
— Hannah Hilyard (@HannahHilyard) February 21, 2017
People in the audience urged Grassley to answer the man’s question.
Grassley is hearing from a man who says he worked as an interpreter in Afghanistan and is trying to get asylum pic.twitter.com/6rvdUTxapn
— Thomas Kaplan (@thomaskaplan) February 21, 2017
Grassley says he will try to help the man. He also says Trump’s executive order on immigration “wasn’t carefully drafted.”
— Thomas Kaplan (@thomaskaplan) February 21, 2017
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