How the Muslim Ban Hurts Rural Health

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Dorothy Wickenden
The Political Scene | The New Yorker | Feb 3, 2017

Dr. Ali Fadhil, who worked as a translator for Americans during the Iraq War and is now an internist in Georgia, speaks to Dorothy Wickenden about Trump’s recent executive order banning immigrants from seven Muslim-majority nations. He talks about the unintended consequences of the ban on rural clinics and hospitals, which are heavily staffed by immigrants, and about the effects of Trumpism on his family.

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