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_Like we_re in a prison__ 19-year-old Ximena Arias-Cristobal details experience in ICE detention(MP3_160K) · NO FILTER

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  Speaker 1: We have one of those individual stories right now. We
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  Speaker 1: brought you this a couple weeks ago, and now we're
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  Speaker 1: very happy to say that we have the girl in question.
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  Speaker 1: Jimena Aris Cristobal, has become one of the faces of
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  Speaker 1: President Trump's immigration crackdown.
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  Speaker 2: We told you her story. She is a.
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  Speaker 1: Nineteen year old Georgia college student who was mistakenly pulled
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  Speaker 1: over for a mistaken traffic violation. Then she was detained
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  Speaker 1: by Ice officials. She has been in the US and
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  Speaker 1: she was four years old when our family crossed the
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  Speaker 1: border from Mexico illegally. She spent sixteen days in custody
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  Speaker 1: in detainment before she was finally released on bond last week,
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  Speaker 1: and though she was released from detention, she still faces
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  Speaker 1: potential deportation to Mexico. Jimena Aris Cristobal joins me now, Jimana,
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  Speaker 1: thank you very much for being here.
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  Speaker 2: I love seeing that smile. I love that. That makes
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  Speaker 2: me so happy to see you smiling. How are you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm good, A little bit tired and still trying to
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  Speaker 3: process everything, but overall, I'm good.
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  Speaker 1: I like the welcome home balloons behind you. Not to
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  Speaker 1: bring you back to a darker space, but I'd love
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  Speaker 1: to hear what it was like in that detention center.
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  Speaker 3: It was very hard because they treat us more like
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  Speaker 3: we're in a prison rather than a detention center. So
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  Speaker 3: I think they deprive us of a lot of our
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  Speaker 3: rights that we need to have in the detention center.
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  Speaker 2: Who was in there with you?
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  Speaker 3: A lot of innocent people that are in the same boat.
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  Speaker 3: Ask me or in worse situations.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about some of them.
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  Speaker 3: One of them is this lady that means a lot
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  Speaker 3: to me. She isn't much older, she's around twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 3: and she was pregnant and she had severe pain, so
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  Speaker 3: they would give her medicine and it didn't really help.
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  Speaker 3: But later on her date, her baby died, and then
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  Speaker 3: they took her into a concrete room for observation, and
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  Speaker 3: she would sleep on a mat on the floor, And
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  Speaker 3: after a couple of days of her baby still being
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  Speaker 3: inside of her while it was dead, they took her
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  Speaker 3: to the hospital because she was bleeding out, and they
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  Speaker 3: finally got her proper presuit attention, professional attention, and then
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  Speaker 3: she was only there for a couple of days, maybe
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  Speaker 3: a week at most, and then they took her back
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  Speaker 3: to the detention center, and I just think it's very,
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  Speaker 3: very inhumane that they made her wait to get professional care,
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  Speaker 3: and now she's back in the detention center without being
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  Speaker 3: able to really contact her family while she was going
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  Speaker 3: through that, and now she's facing deportation to make to
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  Speaker 3: go where she has no family members.
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  Speaker 1: So she told you she was pregnant, she lost the baby,
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  Speaker 1: and she was made to sleep on a mat in
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  Speaker 1: a concrete room.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that was rough. That is rough. And she's still
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  Speaker 2: still in detention. She still is.
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  Speaker 3: I believe she's going to be three months here in
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  Speaker 3: a couple of days. Wow, that she's been in Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you talk about feeling like you weren't treated properly, like
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  Speaker 3: you didn't have rights.
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  Speaker 1: There are people in this country who would say, why
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  Speaker 1: should you have rights?
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  Speaker 2: You're not here legally. What do you say to them.
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  Speaker 3: I'd say that even though I don't have the proper
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  Speaker 3: documentation as well as a lot of the people in there,
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't matter at that point because they're depriving us
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  Speaker 3: of are human rights, and everybody is allowed their human rights.
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  Speaker 2: You've been here since you were four.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever considered yourself anything other than American?
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  Speaker 3: I haven't. All I've Obviously, I consider myself Mexican because
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  Speaker 3: I love my heritage, but I am an American because
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  Speaker 3: I grew up here since a very young age. All
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  Speaker 3: I know is the United States, my customs, my friends.
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  Speaker 3: My way of thinking is much like an American.
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  Speaker 2: Are you still facing deportation?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I am. Being out on bond doesn't mean I'm
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  Speaker 3: free to live in the United States. It's being out
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  Speaker 3: on bond means you have an order of deportation, but
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  Speaker 3: you have time to figure out if you can stay
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  Speaker 3: in the country legally.
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  Speaker 2: So what are you doing right now to try to stay.
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  Speaker 3: Right now? My any Dustin Baxter, he is waiting to
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  Speaker 3: see what happens with the investigation, with the whole situation
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  Speaker 3: that happened on May fifth, with the call pulling over
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  Speaker 3: the wrong vehicle, And if everything goes the way we
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  Speaker 3: want it to go, then I'll be able to apply
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  Speaker 3: for you visa. And if that's not a possibility, then
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  Speaker 3: I'll just hook onto my dad and whatever happens to
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  Speaker 3: him will happen to me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because he was also an attention and is now
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  Speaker 1: out on bond as well.
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  Speaker 2: I know you have a message to the officer who
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  Speaker 2: pulled you over.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I do want to start off by saying that
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  Speaker 3: a couple of days ago at the press conference, I
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  Speaker 3: said I forgave the officer, and a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: took that the wrong way and said that I don't
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  Speaker 3: have anything to forgive him for. But I want to
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  Speaker 3: clarify and say that I've forgiven for pulling over the
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  Speaker 3: wrong vehicle, not that he put me in jail, because
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  Speaker 3: I get he was doing his job once he found
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  Speaker 3: out I was drumming with that a valid license. That's
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  Speaker 3: what I want to clarify that I understand he was
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  Speaker 3: doing his job and I don't need to forgive that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just forgiving the part that he pulled over the
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  Speaker 3: wrong vehicle, and that's what I would want to say,
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  Speaker 3: that he did do his job and my respect to
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  Speaker 3: him for doing with the losses.
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  Speaker 1: Jamana, thank you for joining us. Please say hello to
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  Speaker 1: your to your father for us. We had him on
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  Speaker 1: last week as well. He was very worried about you.
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  Speaker 1: It's really good to have you and I'm just so
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  Speaker 1: happy to see that smile on your face.
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  Speaker 2: It is it's a sight for sore eyes. Jimeda, thank you,
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  Speaker 2: Thanks
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  Speaker 3: It was nice talking to you.