Hopes that Biden will end Trump’s travel ban 

President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to reverse several of the Trump administration’s most divisive immigration policies, including travel bans against many people in more than a dozen Muslim-majority and other countries. It’s a change that has directly impacted families throughout the United States. KQED’s Farida Jhabvala Romero spoke with an Iranian American doctor who has tried for years to bring his father to live with him.

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