Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Travel Ban Impacts DPIE Director’s Family

(Click on the image for the Washington Post report)
By Bill Turque:
"[Haitham] Hijazi, who was born in Syria, came to the United States as a young adult and is now director of permitting, inspections and enforcement for the Prince George’s County government.
Hijazi’s elderly parents, green-card holders for 20 years, are caught up in the chaos touched off by Trump’s executive order temporarily banning citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries, and refugees worldwide, from entering the country.
“Hijazi’s six children, four sons and two daughters, are all professionals, including one who is an attorney and another who followed him into engineering.
There are also 15 grandchildren, part of a large extended family that has settled in Prince George’s.
“Ultimately, we’ve become 100 Hijazis,” he said. “All citizens here.””