PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Mohamed Alshawaf appeared much older than his 70 years as he spoke about the trials his family is enduring.
“Every day, my wife won’t go to sleep unless she talks to our children over there,” Alshawaf, a Syrian refugee who came to the U.S. via Egypt in 2015, said in Arabic. “When she does, she is crying all the time.”
Alshawaf’s family is among 136 Syrian refugees resettled in Rhode Island, according to the Refugee Processing Center, a division of the U.S. Department of State. That community feels under siege following the U.S. Supreme Court’s upholding of a near total travel ban on several Muslim-majority countries, including Syria, in June, as well as a January decision not to extend Temporary Protected Status to Syrians who arrived in the U.S. after August 2016.
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