Nazanin Zinouri, from Tehran, Iran, was escorted off her flight by two officers at a Dubai airport on Saturday after President Donald Trump severely restricted immigration from seven countries.

The PhD graduate from Clemson University has lived in the United States for nearly seven years and shared her emotional story on Facebook which said `everything I worked for all these years doesn`t matter.`

Zinouri, a data scientist, left to visit her family in Iran on Friday, January 20, and said in a Facebook post that she only gets to see her relatives around once a year, due to the 28-hour journey.

She said when rumors began swirling last week about looming immigration restrictions, she booked a ticket back to South Carolina.

Only hours before boarding her flight, Trump signed an order that blocked immigrants from seven `Muslim` countries from entering the US.

Zinouri made it as far as Dubai before she said she was questioned for 40 minutes and eventually pulled off her flight headed to Washington.



`No one warned me when I was leaving, no one cared what will happen to my dog or my job or my life there.

`No one told me what I should do with my car that is still parked at the airport parking. Or what to do with my house and all my belongings.

`They didn`t say it with words but with their actions, that my life doesn`t matter. Everything I worked for all these years doesn`t matter.`


It follows reports that Muslim-majority countries with ties to Trump`s business empire have been excluded from the order

Zinouri left behind her dog who is reportedly being watched by friends in South Carolina.

Her story has been shared more than 120,000 times and liked more than 100,000 times since she posted it on Facebook.

President Trump signed an executive order on Friday afternoon providing for `extreme vetting` of immigrants and visa holders.

Any non-U.S. citizen from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen is now barred from entering the United States for at least 90 days.

The swift order was met by public outrage on social media and people flocked to airports to protest against the decision.

The president denied that his executive order was a Muslim ban.

The federal court for the Eastern District of New York issued a stay Saturday evening blocking the deportation of migrants detained at airports around the US due to Trump`s immigration ban.

Zinouri is one of approximately 375 travelers that were affected by the order, according to a Homeland Security official.

WHO IS BANNED FROM THE U.S?

Any non-U.S. citizen from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen is now barred from entering the United States.

That covers legal permanent residents - green card holders - and visa-holders from those seven countries who were out of the United States after Friday, when President Donald Trump signed an executive order with the temporary ban. They cannot return to the U.S. for 90 days.

There`s an exemption for immigrants and legal permanent residents whose entry is in the U.S. national interest, but it`s unclear how that exemption will be applied.

Visa and green card holders already in the U.S. will be allowed to stay.

Customs and Border Protection is notifying airlines about passengers whose visas have been canceled or legal residents scheduled to fly back to the U.S. Airlines are being told to keep them off those flights.

/Daily Mail/

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