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Muslim ban? Afghan girl robotics version

[ by Charles Cameron — no great fan of robotics, but with fond memories of Afghanistan ]
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Source:

  • WaPo, U.S. denies visas for Afghanistan’s all-girl robotics team
  • From that article:

    To participate, the girls from the city of Herat in western Afghanistan needed permission to travel to the United States. So, after they convinced their parents to let them go, they made the 500-mile journey to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul to apply for their visas. They did this twice, even though that location was targeted by a deadly truck bomb.

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    U.S. denies visas..

    So sad! — as one Donald J Trump has once or twice tweeted.

    2 Responses to “Muslim ban? Afghan girl robotics version”

    1. Overload in CO Says:

      The ‘travel ban’ doesn’t include Afghanistan.

    2. Charles Cameron Says:

      Not as presently requested or enforced it doesn’t — but the whole idea as Trump originally proposed it may nevertheless have a wider impact..


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