In Nashville, Kurds Express Fears About Trump's Immigration Ban

By Emily Siner

Published January 30, 2017 at 4:37 PM EST

Some people in Nashville's Kurdish community — the largest in the U.S. — are worried about Trump's executive order on immigration. Reports of Green Card holders being turned away overseas are causing panic among legal permanent residents.

Corrected: February 2, 2017 at 12:00 AM EST

In this story, we incorrectly say Drost Kokoye is with the American Center for Outreach. In fact, she works with the American Muslim Advisory Council.

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Emily Siner

Emily Siner is an enterprise reporter at WPLN. She has worked at the Los Angeles Times and NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., and her written work was recently published in Slices Of Life, an anthology of literary feature writing. Born and raised in the Chicago area, she is a graduate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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