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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Makiya Seminera

International students’ college dreams shattered by Trump’s travel ban

Having been barred from college in her native Afghanistan by the Taliban, Bahara Saghari set her sights on higher education in the United States, only for her ambitions to be thwarted by Donald Trump’s travel ban.

The 21-year-old dedicated years to practising English, sometimes for eight hours a day, eventually securing an offer to study business administration at a private liberal arts college in Illinois. She had hoped to arrive this autumn.

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