Arms smuggling operations have employed nighttime ship-to-ship transfers off the coast of Somalia to move cargo from Iran to other vessels for transport to recipients such as armed groups in Yemen.
August 01, 2023
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Describes a recurring smuggling method used to transfer cargo from Iran via maritime routes near Somalia to reach recipients in the Arabian Peninsula.
In March 2017, U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang issued a nationwide injunction blocking President Donald Trump's revised "travel ban," the March 2017 executive order that suspended travel for 90 days from six majority-Muslim countries (Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen) and paused the entry of asylum seekers for 120 days.
March 01, 2017
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Federal-court injunction and description of the executive order's provisions.
Amer Ghalib, who was born and raised in Yemen, immigrated to the United States at age 17, attended Ross University School of Medicine from 2006 to 2011, and worked as a healthcare professional at the Hamtramck Medical Group prior to entering politics.
January 01, 2011
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Biographical background and professional history of Amer Ghalib.