Even suspended ban puts Iraqi interpreter's American dream at risk

Ex-Marine's Michigan export business is suffering because it's too risky to leave the country

In 2006, when I arrived at Camp Taqqadum in Iraq to embed with the U.S. Marines, I was immediately invited for tea by the unit's interpreter. A quiet, exceedingly courteous father of three young girls, Haider told me how he spent three months at a time away from his family, but didn't dare carry their pictures. He was a wanted man for helping the Marines, and couldn't risk insurgents seeing his family should he be captured.

Haider longed to get them out of the country, envisioning the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michigan 2014 home to a large contingent of Arabs 2014