Lives turned upside down at the stroke of US President Donald Trump’s pen

The absurdity of the perceived threat posed by refugees and immigrants from ‘banned’ countries is about politics not US security, writes Tania Karas.            

Farah Marcolla’s life has been upended by the stroke of US President Donald Trump’s pen.

The United States government hired the Iraqi citizen — then a young co-founder of her family’s engineering firm — to manage construction projects on a Baghdad military base during the Iraq War.