“Some friends do a fund-raising site for me, and I believe without this I would never make it,” said Ms. Isweiri, 41,

“Some friends do a fund-raising site for me, and I believe without this I would never make it,” said Ms. Isweiri, 41,
who made it back to Colorado on Sunday, two days after a federal judge put a halt, for now, on the travel ban.
“Where is the disclosure on what you are doing with $12,000?”
Mr. Martinez said that people were underestimating the costs — not just for all the international cellphone calls, printing bills for legal filings and the $3,200 for same-day flights from Tehran to Frankfurt to Boston,
but also for an immigration lawyer to work on her case in what was expected to be a protracted legal battle.
But the largest crowdfunding site, GoFundMe, and a company it recently acquired, CrowdRise, have seen more than 50 new campaigns
that have raised nearly $1.5 million related to the executive order, which halted travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries for 90 days and barred Syrian refugees indefinitely.
Trapped in an airport terminal in Jordan by President Trump’s travel ban, Hanan Isweiri fretted
that as a Libyan citizen she would not be able to return to her husband and three children in Colorado.
D. graduate of Clemson University, was trapped in her native Iran, they set up a GoFundMe page with a $30,000 goal to help get her back,
and were met with criticism over what some users of the site perceived as a very high figure.
“No matter how great the NGOs and government agencies are, a lot of people will fall through the cracks.”
GoFundMe takes 5 percent of the funds raised for administrative fees and an additional 2.9 percent for credit card processing.
Just about the only thing she did not have to worry about — despite staying in airport hotels in Jordan
and Turkey, and repeatedly booking and rebooking intercontinental flights in those chaotic early days — was money.