Activist Ravi Ragbir on the Dehumanization of Immigrants

Brut America

ICE tried to deport this immigration activist for a nearly two-decade-old conviction — even though he already served time. He told Brut that he thinks the Trump administration is intentionally traumatizing immigrant families.

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00:00You're creating a system where millions of people are terrified, not afraid, terrified

00:24about what is going to happen tomorrow to themselves and to their loved ones.

00:54Even as they checked my vitals, they made me walk, shackle to the ambulance, they're

01:15saying that there were thousands of people there accompanying me on the outside, and

01:25they were, they didn't want to see me deported, wow, and people were getting arrested, including

02:07They wanted to stop my outspokenness, they wanted to punish me, they wanted to punish

02:13my family, and they also wanted it to be very public.

02:36The whole system is meant to dehumanize you, the system is, all the harshness, the extreme

02:45conditions that they put you through, is meant to dehumanize you and destroy you, so that

02:51you give up your right to fight.

02:54We cannot allow ourselves to be silenced.

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