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A woman who was recently released from custody by immigration agents described the horrifying way she was treated during a stop last month - one she said exacerbated disabilities - and the terrible conditions inside the Minneapolis-area ICE facility.
Aliyah Rahman, an autistic South Minneapolis resident with a traumatic brain injury who needs a wheelchair for mobility, told lawmakers during a Congressional forum on Tuesday that she was stopped by ICE agents while on her way to a doctor's appointment. She said agents violently arrested her, including threatening multiple times to "break her f------ window" when she did not immediately comply out of shock, and slashing her seat belt with what appeared to be a hunting knife. She said they also dragged her by her arms, face down, from her car to an ICE vehicle, even while she was screaming at them about suffering from disabilities.
"I now cannot lift my arms normally," Rahman said. She claimed the agents never read her rights, and the Trump administration never charged her with a crime.
The conditions she witnessed inside the Minneapolis-area ICE facility were even more concerning, Rahman said. Outside of the center, she saw hordes of "black and brown bodies" being mushed along by screaming federal agents.
"I continued to hear the word bodies, because that is how agents referred to us," Rahman said.
"You have no reason to think you will make it out alive if you are already being called a body," she added.
Sounds to me like they only thing they still need is gas chambers. The parallels here are beyond refute. We are gonna be reading the diary of Ana Franco instead of Ann Frank.
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Aliyah Rahman, an autistic South Minneapolis resident with a traumatic brain injury who needs a wheelchair for mobility, told lawmakers during a Congressional forum on Tuesday that she was stopped by ICE agents while on her way to a doctor's appointment. She said agents violently arrested her, including threatening multiple times to "break her f------ window" when she did not immediately comply out of shock, and slashing her seat belt with what appeared to be a hunting knife. She said they also dragged her by her arms, face down, from her car to an ICE vehicle, even while she was screaming at them about suffering from disabilities.
"I now cannot lift my arms normally," Rahman said. She claimed the agents never read her rights, and the Trump administration never charged her with a crime.
The conditions she witnessed inside the Minneapolis-area ICE facility were even more concerning, Rahman said. Outside of the center, she saw hordes of "black and brown bodies" being mushed along by screaming federal agents.
"I continued to hear the word bodies, because that is how agents referred to us," Rahman said.
"You have no reason to think you will make it out alive if you are already being called a body," she added.
Sounds to me like they only thing they still need is gas chambers. The parallels here are beyond refute. We are gonna be reading the diary of Ana Franco instead of Ann Frank.
ICE agents mocked autistic woman for asking for wheelchair after dragging her out of car
A woman who was recently released from custody by immigration agents described the horrifying way she was treated during a stop last month - one she said exacerbated disabilities - and the terrible conditions inside the Minneapolis-area ICE facility.Aliyah Rahman, an autistic South Minneapolis...
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