Acrassicauda drummer Marwan Hussein is at the Iraqi embassy in New York trying to find out how to see his mother under President Trump's executive order, which bans travel from some Middle Eastern countries. Like his bandmates in the thrash-metal group, Hussein came to the U.S. from Baghdad as a refugee roughly nine years ago and became a full U.S. citizen last year. He has been applying
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Iraqi Band Acrassicauda on Trump’s Travel Ban: ‘Are We Being Punked?’