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PHOTO GALLERY: Relatives of an Allentown family were denied entry to the United States following President Donald Trump’s executive order barring non-American citizens from seven countries from entering.
PICTURES: Syrian family bound for Allentown turned back under Trump order
APRIL BARTHOLOMEW / THE MORNING CALL
Ghassan Assali (left) looks over nephew Tawfik Assali’s shoulder in Ghassan’s family living room as Tawfik show a recent family picture of his father Hassan Assali, sister Sarah Assali, 19, and his brother Matthew Assali, 17. Six of the Assalis’ relatives, including the ones in the Christmas photo were briefly detained in Philadelphia before getting put on a flight back to Doha, Qatar.