CLEVELAND, Ohio – Two refugee families, one Syrian and one Iraqi, flew the skies of uncertainty Thursday to arrive here safely Friday morning.
The families were en route to the U.S. from a refugee camp in Turkey just as a federal appeals court panel maintained the freeze on President Donald Trump’s immigration ban of refugees and citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries.
They arrived in New York Thursday night, spent the night there and flew to Cleveland Friday morning, arriving at 10 a.m.
Cleveland’s newest residents are the Nayef family of six, two parents and four children, from Syria, and the Alnuami family of four, a mother and three children from Iraq.
A small group of officials from the US Together local refugee resettlement agency met them at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, bearing flowers, signs and smiles.
This afternoon the agency will be taking the families to homes on the west side of Cleveland that had already been secured.
Also greeting the families at the airport were two Cleveland rabbis, Josh Caruso and Jordana Chernow Reader with her son Julian Reader, 7.
Both refugee families were due to arrive in Cleveland earlier, but were delayed when Trump signed the executive order for the immigration ban.
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