Immigration policies tearing families apart

Brut America

An FBI raid tore this Muslim immigrant from her family when she was just 16. Now, she sees history repeating itself in today's zero-tolerance immigration policy.

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00:00What other children are going through right now, the migrant children are going through,

00:03is something that I went through. I was torn away from my parents. So I know how they feel.

00:22I know that feeling inside of wanting your parents and crying for them

00:26and knowing there's nothing that they can do because

00:29the people that are meant to protect you are separating you from them.

00:48So my ordeal happened in 2005 and now we're in 2018 and how we deal with immigrants

00:54and Muslims the same. We've made them the enemy and the fear and the problem.

01:08You have rights and take advantage of those. Don't let them think that they're in power

01:14and that they can do whatever they want. We have to hold them accountable and say,

01:18hey, that's not legal. I can't protect them too much. Unfortunately, they don't have to worry

01:27about being undocumented, but they have to worry about being black, worried about being half Latino.

01:33They have to worry about if they decide to be Muslims, they have to worry about being a Muslim

01:37in America. They're American citizens. I have to teach them how to deal with this administration

01:43to come.

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