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[00:00:00] report and deported me, so it wasn't
[00:00:02] their plan to deport
[00:00:06] me this way, if we
[00:00:08] of didn't go to the federal judge and ask
[00:00:12] him to release either release me or deport me, they
[00:00:15] wouldn't do that, we didn't even know cuz it was we were used to him
[00:00:19] calling and then he
[00:00:20] of didn't call for two days so we didn't know what was going on
[00:00:24] of and um my mom called his lawyer and he didn't like have an
[00:00:28] idea of what's going on and we have to try get in touch with
[00:00:30] people and like she was kind of freaking out cuz it was
[00:00:34] just you couldn't get in touch with them, no one knew what was
[00:00:38] happening to
[00:00:39] of him, it's the humiliation
[00:00:41] of you know being
[00:00:45] of deported and traveling
[00:00:48] in a t-shirt and sweatpants and prison shoes
[00:00:50] and having these agents with
[00:00:53] you, it's
[00:00:56] especially for somebody who has...
[00:01:01] "my good name and my reputation are the only assets I have in this world, I
[00:01:05] mean,
[00:01:05] you know, I don't have any money
[00:01:07] in any bank accounts, I don't have any land, I don't have any, this is the
[00:01:11] only thing I have, and the US government
[00:01:15] made sure to to attack me on these on
[00:01:19] these two, they have ruined my reputation, they have ruined my good
[00:01:22] name, and they have accused me injustly of things
[00:01:26] that are complete
[00:01:29] of fabrications." um, they they could
[00:01:32] in not
[00:01:32] of prove anything because there was nothing
[00:01:34] me there, but with
[00:01:38] the USA Patriot Act, they didn't have to prove
[00:01:41] anything, it was enough for the government to
[00:01:44] of say, we suspect, they think that accusing people, destroying
[00:01:48] their lives is something they can do, this is what worries
[00:01:51] me, it is the the
[00:01:55] arrogance
[00:01:56] of the powerful, sometimes I think back and I don't even know. like
[00:02:00] it still seems like a dream away, i don't really know how we got
[00:02:04] through all of it, seems like it was something that even happened to someone
[00:02:07] else, america
[00:02:11] before, i won't say before September 11th, america before
[00:02:15] the USA patriot act was
[00:02:17] of one thing, and after the USA Patriot Act was a completely different
[00:02:21] country, it I will not be
[00:02:24] exaggerating if I said America today
[00:02:27] in is a
[00:02:27] of police state just like any other third. world police
[00:02:30] states, it
[00:02:32] in is actually the dark ages, it is the mentality
[00:02:35] of the dark ages where governments could do
[00:02:38] anything they want to do, in criminal court, the burden of
[00:02:42] proof is with the prosecution, they would have to make the case,
[00:02:46] they
[00:02:46] of would have to prove, in immigration all they have to do is just cast doubt
[00:02:50] upon, they do whatever they want to do, and they
[00:02:54] have the laws, they have everything they
[00:02:57] of want to lie, even lie. all these things that you hear
[00:03:01] about freedom and you know equality and all
[00:03:05] th other things it just seemed like more and more of a fsad and it was
[00:03:08] just
[00:03:13] i don't know like the hypocrisy was just
[00:03:16] overwhelming and i'm just having
[00:03:20] to deal with that uncertainty a
[00:03:24] daily basis was just very nerve-breacking and
[00:03:27] very exhausting.
[00:03:34] We join Yusuf's family as they go to visit
[00:03:36] a Yousuf in prison, a three-hour drive from
[00:03:38] of their house in Tampa into the southern swamps of Florida. It has been almost
[00:03:42] five months since Yousuf has been imprisoned awaiting his deportation
[00:03:46] hearing. It is now just two days away. Samir
[00:03:50] Magahid, Yousuf's father, tries
[00:03:52] a to remain hopeful. We are so patient and we can
[00:03:55] wait, but this
[00:03:58] of life of my son. They want to destroy
[00:04:01] him by putting him
[00:04:04] in a jail waiting for his
[00:04:07] winning after one week, one
[00:04:10] month, one year, nobody
[00:04:14] knows, nobody,
[00:04:18] I'm going to advise him to be patient, to be in good
[00:04:22] condition in front of the
[00:04:25] in in judge to let the judge knows the truth
[00:04:29] about.
[00:04:35] of Yusuf's trial is held in the chrome jail in the swamps outside
[00:04:39] Miami. Ice is flowing
[00:04:41] in a team of four lawyers to try the case. Yusuf's lawyer,
[00:04:45] Charles Cook, has agreed to take the case for free. No
[00:04:48] cameras are allowed inside. We are currently in the second day
[00:04:52] of the trial. We just finished the testimony
[00:04:54] of the government's first witness, both his cross examination and his direct
[00:04:58] examination. What's at stake is... what young muslim men in
[00:05:01] America can do and act like in America today.
[00:05:05] The reality here is, if you're a Muslim in America, you can't think like
[00:05:09] everybody else, you can't think like your colleague. I have
[00:05:13] another client we went to lunch with few weeks ago who was about the same age as Yusuf and
[00:05:17] I was telling about YouTuf's case and it was very interesting what he said. He had very little sympathy for
[00:05:21] you so what is he thinking in America is a Muslim man you can't go surfing on
[00:05:25] the internet and look at sites you can't hang around with other people that are Muslims and talk about
[00:05:28] Islam and I frankly find that
[00:05:31] sad. David Cole is a law professor at Georgetown
[00:05:35] University Law Center and an expert in constitutional and first amendment
[00:05:39] rights. He says that the targeting of immigrants in America. is
[00:05:42] nothing new. historically, whenever the United States
[00:05:46] has faced a security threat, uh, it has
[00:05:50] responded by targeting immigrants with its most
[00:05:54] restrictive measures. uh, and I think that's partly because it's
[00:05:58] easy to do so. you
[00:05:59] know, it's it's it's one thing to say to American people, we
[00:06:03] face a greater security threat, you've got
[00:06:06] sacrifice some of your liberties and rights in order to protect the
[00:06:10] country. um... um, but it's another thing to say to American
[00:06:14] people, we face a a greater security
[00:06:17] threat, um, but we're going to give you more security
[00:06:21] by sacrificing somebody else's rights, uh,
[00:06:24] namely uh, foreign nationals, immigrants, people who have
[00:06:28] no voice in the political process. we did it in
[00:06:31] 1919, after series of terrorist bombs, we went
[00:06:34] out and rounded up thousands of foreign nationals on
[00:06:38] pretextual charges, charges of guilt by association, not one
[00:06:42] them. was ever found to have been involved any the
[00:06:45] bombings. During World War II, we rounded up,
[00:06:49] thousands and thousands of Japanese immigrants. This kind of
[00:06:52] anti-immigrant targeting has been a constant feature
[00:06:56] in the United States at every point that we've had security crisis. When you
[00:07:00] want to take action before somebody has actually done anything
[00:07:04] wrong, well the criminal law doesn't really allow you to do that
[00:07:07] generally. Criminal law requires you to have some proof that an individual is
[00:07:11] either committed. a terrorist act or has conspired to commit a terrorist act
[00:07:15] or has attempted to commit a terrorist act, it
[00:07:19] requires that you put the evidence on the table, that you give a person
[00:07:23] fair trial, but if you use immigration law, you can find
[00:07:27] all sorts of pretextual charges to use against
[00:07:30] people, the government employs secret evidence often
[00:07:34] in uh immigration procedures, the same sort of fair
[00:07:37] trial rights don't uh necessarily apply, the Supreme
[00:07:41] Court has said
[00:07:42] that it's... permissible to selectively single out people
[00:07:45] for uh immigration enforcement based on their affiliation with
[00:07:49] political groups, so the same sets of
[00:07:53] protections and rights don't exist, makes it easier to
[00:07:57] use the immigration process. Dan vara was the highest ranking ice attorney in
[00:08:01] the state of Florida from 2003 to 2006. He says that after the
[00:08:05] September 11th attacks he began working closely with the FBI.
[00:08:09] His prosecutions became a model for using immigration courts. as an arm of
[00:08:13] counter terrorism across the country. two the days after
[00:08:16] 9/11, people like myself and we were allowed to move
[00:08:20] forward and identify people uh for
[00:08:23] charges uh to be taken into detention and to be
[00:08:26] prosecuted again, not criminally, but for the purpose of removing
[00:08:30] them from the United States. in Florida, once we began our
[00:08:34] our work with the joint terrorism task force and even its precursor, just
[00:08:38] the FBI and other loosely associated
[00:08:41] groups, Our involvement was day-to-day, we
[00:08:45] shared, again at the height of my prosecution
[00:08:48] experience, FBI would feed me information every day.
[00:08:52] Var is proud of his work with the FBI and defends the tactic of seeking the
[00:08:56] deportation of residents against whom no criminal charges can be proven.
[00:08:59] Many people get
[00:09:02] prosecuted and get acquitted and they're guilty. When you
[00:09:06] sit at the table with other prosecutors from other
[00:09:10] branches the US government and... agents from all these agencies
[00:09:14] and you're reviewing evidence, the
[00:09:16] goal is to find
[00:09:18] the way to deal with the threat, and
[00:09:22] if if the only thing you have is tax
[00:09:26] fraud, if the only thing you have is an immigration
[00:09:29] violation, then frankly that's what you
[00:09:32] use, an immigration charge is administrative nature, for
[00:09:36] the proof is less than they are a a criminal trial, so even though you
[00:09:40] got to quitted in the criminal trial. "the reality is that the government can
[00:09:43] still meet its burden,
[00:09:45] it clear and convincing evidence. there are so many people that put their fingers
[00:09:49] in every single terrorism case that I would tell you
[00:09:53] unequivocally that mistakes were not made. in terms of identifying actual
[00:09:57] terrorists um the government has been very
[00:10:00] ineffective. so for example
[00:10:03] uh in the first um two years after
[00:10:07] 9/11 the government uh locked up mostly using
[00:10:10] immigration powers over.
[00:10:12] 5,000 foreign nation anti-terrorism preventive
[00:10:16] detention measures, anti-terrorism preventive detention measures,
[00:10:19] of those 5,000, not one stands
[00:10:23] convicted today. of any kind of terrorist offense,
[00:10:27] so the government's record there is zero for 5,00. they don't
[00:10:31] have the evidence in these cases, and that's what they see is the beauty of
[00:10:35] immigration court is heck, you don't need evidence, you just need a
[00:10:39] judge who's willing to look at all the garbage evidence and
[00:10:43] make a conclusory statement that I think you've met the burden of proof, thank you very much, have
[00:10:47] nice life. arguably anything is the proper use the immigration laws, congress has designed
[00:10:50] it to be in many ways like tax laws the cut al capone.
[00:10:55] "if
[00:10:55] we can't get him on the criminal charges where we have to meet this incredibly high burden of proof will
[00:10:59] just support somebody on incredibly vague immigration statute. these immigration
[00:11:03] courts are part the department of justice, they are an executive. this
[00:11:06] is not a judicial branch, this is not an independent
[00:11:09] judiciary. this judge was appointed by a previous
[00:11:13] attorney general, he works for the attorney general. these
[00:11:16] FBI agents work for oddly enough, the same attorney
[00:11:20] general. the folks that are prosecuting this case at homeland
[00:11:24] security. are also an executive branch. reality is you have the
[00:11:28] executive branch being both the prosecutor,
[00:11:32] judge, and jury in this case. we should all be concerned about
[00:11:36] that. we should be concerned that there is a complete lack of judicial independence
[00:11:40] here. why would an immigration judge whose boss is the
[00:11:43] one presumably that wants to prosecute and deport this man
[00:11:47] say, "i'm sorry boss, you're wrong. boy, it would take a judge with a
[00:11:51] great deal of courage to do that. many people focus on..."
[00:11:55] uh the Bush administration and particularly on uh
[00:11:59] 9/11 and the reaction to 9/11 and on for example the Patriot
[00:12:02] Act um, but what what you miss when you focus
[00:12:06] in that way is that this is a broader problem. now we're in the middle the Obama
[00:12:10] administration, attorney general holder has approved this, trust me, if he hadn't
[00:12:14] approved it, we wouldn't be having this conversation, so clearly the Obama administration is
[00:12:17] continuing the same enforcement mentality that first
[00:12:21] Clinton and then the Bush administration followed in immigration.
[00:12:25] "it's being there's involvement at the highest levels, the secretary of homeland
[00:12:28] security, I would be very surprised if that person was not uh,
[00:12:32] Janet Napolitano was not involved in this case, I would be very
[00:12:36] surprised that that if that was the case, not only
[00:12:40] because it's a terrorist case, because the publicity that it's getting. A
[00:12:44] local Islamic group is speaking out about immigration officials decision to
[00:12:47] detain Yusuf Megahel
[00:12:49] having a fair trial and and the jury finding not guilty,
[00:12:53] it seems like slap in the face plan." was to punish them in
[00:12:56] immigration. Yusuf was arrested for one reason and one reason only, and that's
[00:13:00] because he looked muslim. with Yusuf's trial
[00:13:04] already underway, protest by community, religious and civil rights groups
[00:13:08] continue to grow. an unusual move, four the juris from his
[00:13:12] criminal trial, including fourman Gary Marringer, begin speaking
[00:13:16] out on Yusuf's behalf. this just
[00:13:20] doesn't doesn't seem right. there are things under the law that
[00:13:24] were put into effect. after 9/11 that allows the
[00:13:27] government to simply say, we think you're a
[00:13:31] terroris, and therefore you will be detained until you have
[00:13:35] your day in court, and there's no judicial review of that determination, it's it's just a
[00:13:38] unilateral determination made
[00:13:41] by immigration officials. we
[00:13:45] didn't know whether usef should be deported or
[00:13:49] given full citizenship and allowed to finish engineering school. what we did
[00:13:53] know lot about was the case we saw. in federal court, and based on that
[00:13:57] case, he was not guilty of anything,
[00:14:00] whether it's beyond reasonable doubt or by a preponderance the evidence as
[00:14:04] might be required in immigration court or by any
[00:14:08] measure that we saw, this this kid would has there
[00:14:12] was no evidence that he had done anything wrong, it's like telling the government,
[00:14:16] if that's all you got, um, let him
[00:14:19] go. i've been doing criminal defense work for 15 years and i've never
[00:14:23] seen, never heard of
[00:14:26] of juris going to the media and saying how outraged they are about what the
[00:14:30] government is something even
[00:14:33] more about the disconnect between our
[00:14:37] government policies and what the people who live in this country
[00:14:41] want. if do talk to somebody about this
[00:14:44] case, what positive can come about it for
[00:14:48] me, not forget about you for a minute, is
[00:14:51] there anything good that can happen? and the answer is no.
[00:14:55] but um, this is what I need to be doing.
[00:14:58] I would really like to think at the end the day I did everything
[00:15:01] possible, I could to get him a fair shake. I
[00:15:05] was a history major, um,
[00:15:09] and during the pre-american
[00:15:13] revolution, um, what jurors were
[00:15:17] doing, and the verdicts that they were turning down and and offenses
[00:15:21] that were being prosecuted by then the British government, um,
[00:15:25] was the same sort of thing, it was, we're not going to enforce these laws, these laws are wrong,
[00:15:29] what you're doing is wrong, um, and that's what these jurers are saying, what
[00:15:33] you're doing is wrong, you know, the law may allow you to do this, but
[00:15:37] it's wrong. what do you think is going to happen at this
[00:15:40] time? well, based on the
[00:15:43] evidence that I know of, it ought to be
[00:15:47] um very short uh finding
[00:15:50] of not guilty, but based on what
[00:15:54] I've heard about the immigration courts, the immigration judges, the influence the
[00:15:58] government, the fact they can put on evidence and not even have to show it to the
[00:16:02] defense, what I think is going to happen is he's going to be
[00:16:05] found guilty is some sort of... uh terrorist
[00:16:09] aider and better whatever and sent back, yeah it's funny sent
[00:16:13] back, but sent to Egypt where he hasn't lived since he was like
[00:16:17] 11 years
[00:16:17] old,
[00:16:26] at first i was shocked because i knew the family very well and i knew the
[00:16:29] mujah family, i knew their son, i knew how good he was
[00:16:33] and i have a son, so i was scared, the told him
[00:16:36] you I'm not, I don't feel you're not comfortable for you, what if they
[00:16:40] did the same thing to you, so it made me feel unsafe, it
[00:16:44] made me feel scar for my kids, but I felt like I
[00:16:48] can't let the fear take over me, and I start
[00:16:52] thinking right, he we have rights, we're american citizens that we
[00:16:56] should fight this, it shouldn't take this route because this is
[00:16:59] wrong, and if we don't fight now everybody else are scared,
[00:17:03] afraid and they going to hide away from it, so we thought we could fight it
[00:17:07] together. and i felt
[00:17:08] you know we can do it, if we as a community work together we can do it. give
[00:17:12] a kind of
[00:17:13] you know strength to stand up and fight, and the more you learn about your
[00:17:16] rights, you have to stand up for your rights. we had a privilege to fight for
[00:17:20] our rights and speak our minds and and have the freedom to practice
[00:17:24] religion, not because i'm wearing head scarf, that mean i'm
[00:17:27] suspect, not because i'm a muslim, i'm a
[00:17:29] suspect, and maybe you know with all of
[00:17:33] us, you know are united as a community, muslim.
[00:17:37] and muslims, everybody else uh work together to
[00:17:41] solve this problem, no profiling
[00:17:43] whatsoever, we will be all safe, buse that will
[00:17:47] be justice, family, his mother and his
[00:17:51] father and his oldest brother naturalized, but they have mixed feelings
[00:17:55] because their son is still being held by immigration authorities, please make
[00:17:59] dua for the family um and uh keep tab on the
[00:18:03] case and uh support any way you can when
[00:18:06] anyone our community or even a minority
[00:18:10] community sees this case, especially because this family is
[00:18:14] immigrants, they see themselves and they see what could happen to
[00:18:17] them, and they,
[00:18:20] I think they're concerned now more than ever, especially
[00:18:24] everything that's been happening our community with this case or
[00:18:27] nationwide, um, but the main point here
[00:18:31] is that we have to be aware as Americans, all Americans. One week
[00:18:35] into the trial, just as the defense is about to present it. case the judge makes
[00:18:38] an unexpected announcement: uh, the immigration judge terminated removal
[00:18:42] proceedings, uh, he did the right thing, uh,
[00:18:45] when the judge walked into the court room today, and he
[00:18:49] said the first thing he said was, we're going to go over the exhibits in the case, I
[00:18:53] knew at that point we had won, because otherwise he never would have talked about the exhibits before
[00:18:57] I had presented a case. As soon as I realized that, I turned turned
[00:19:01] over to Yusuf and
[00:19:03] I said, I put my hand on his leg
[00:19:04] and I said, you won, I don't think he understood. me,
[00:19:08] he looked at me and he didn't understand, and Dustin, my co-counsel leaned
[00:19:12] in and said, you won the case, and then as big old grin, you
[00:19:16] should smile now, and a big old grin came on his face, he now understands
[00:19:20] what a great victory this is for really for justice in America, uh, the government
[00:19:24] presented a case today, and the last four days, it was
[00:19:27] junk, it was all about junk, and as result the judge finally realized what it was
[00:19:31] and dismissed it, this is the second time in my 20-year career that a judge has dismissed charges
[00:19:35] against somebody and terminated for. meetings based upon the government's lack of
[00:19:39] evidence, so this is very unique happening for me and really for any
[00:19:42] immigration. outside the chrome jail, supporters
[00:19:46] and press wait until sundown
[00:19:48] for you, i'm very happy
[00:19:50] for this, i'm very happy for this and i'm
[00:19:54] looking forward to go back to
[00:19:57] university,
[00:20:07] i am... feeling so happy for return my
[00:20:10] son to spend the ramadan with us. it is the
[00:20:14] first night of ramadan. we feel so
[00:20:17] happy by having my
[00:20:21] son to our house again. and i want to send
[00:20:25] message for the government that this
[00:20:28] family, family of magahed cames to this
[00:20:32] country to live in peace and work and
[00:20:36] take their degree.
[00:20:52] think it's all over
[00:20:53] now,
[00:20:58] Yusuf is one the very few who beat their charges in both criminal and
[00:21:01] immigration court. despite no charges ever being filed against
[00:21:05] him, rabia hadad was deported to Lebanon in
[00:21:07] 2003. after being found innocent of all
[00:21:11] charges, Sammy Hamudi was held by ice and then finally deported to
[00:21:14] Palestine. He now teaches political science at Berzeit
[00:21:18] University. The both say that the America that they left is
[00:21:22] nothing like the country they were once proud to call home. when people would ask
[00:21:26] me about living in the US, this is before September
[00:21:28] 11th,
[00:21:32] as compared to Lebanon or other parts the world,
[00:21:36] I would always make the comment
[00:21:38] that everything else
[00:21:42] aside, it's still a country of
[00:21:45] law where everybody is equal under the
[00:21:48] law.
[00:21:50] I felt happy in the United States because
[00:21:54] I felt for the first time that I am free to think the way I
[00:21:58] want to think, to ride the way I want to write, to go
[00:22:01] wherever I want to go,
[00:22:04] it's uh the opposite 100%. I did
[00:22:08] not expect what happened after September 11. To this
[00:22:12] day the government can walk into anybody's home, into
[00:22:16] any company, any firm in the US.
[00:22:21] freeze their accounts, confiscate all their documents on the
[00:22:25] basis of doubt. all they have to do is to
[00:22:28] say, we suspect you of terrorist
[00:22:31] activity. in the United States, there is no justice, this is what I
[00:22:35] believe in, and this
[00:22:36] is what I teach my students. I don't believe that now inside the United
[00:22:39] States anyone can say anything he wants,
[00:22:43] no, the American Muslims and Arabs are not exercising their full
[00:22:47] rights as other Americans, they cannot.
[00:22:50] because they will be punished and the government
[00:22:54] has many ways to punish people if they
[00:22:58] want to, and one time Ash said, if
[00:23:02] someone is spit in the street, we can try
[00:23:05] him, we can make laws to try him and put him in jail
[00:23:09] if we want, civil liberties, human
[00:23:13] rights, the bill of rights are all
[00:23:16] things the past, this whole of
[00:23:20] democracy and liberty and and the rule of law
[00:23:24] and it's just a myth now, it's
[00:23:27] just a myth. any muslim or any arab living in
[00:23:31] the us and hearing me say this, will not
[00:23:35] think twice about it, they they know it, they feel it, they're living
[00:23:39] it, but hope that other
[00:23:43] us citizens don't end up on the
[00:23:47] wrong side the fence to find out how bad this. this usa
[00:23:50] patriot act really is the mentality that will
[00:23:54] harass the muslims and arabs, the institutions that will harass
[00:23:57] muslims will harass others. measures
[00:24:01] first introduced against immigrants inevitably get
[00:24:04] extended and applied to us citizens, so
[00:24:08] over time it's all of our rights that are at stake, so the
[00:24:12] first measures that um that that criminalized
[00:24:15] speech or that that penalized political essentially guilt by.
[00:24:20] Association were introduced in the immigration law uh in
[00:24:23] the uh early 1900s, but were extended uh
[00:24:27] to American citizens during the McCarthy era, and thousands and
[00:24:31] thousands of Americans were affected by that guilt by
[00:24:34] association. The first um sort of
[00:24:37] ethnic-based targeting uh enforcement
[00:24:41] was against uh foreign nationals from countries
[00:24:45] whose ethnicity we didn't like, but uh
[00:24:49] during... World War II
[00:24:51] that was extended and we ended up locking up uh not just
[00:24:55] Japanese immigrants but American citizens of Japanese
[00:24:58] descent, so whether it be you know racial
[00:25:01] discrimination or or um or
[00:25:05] penalizing speech or guilt by
[00:25:07] association uh uh the the measures are
[00:25:10] introduced against immigrants initially but eventually get extended
[00:25:14] to uh US citizens. It created fear
[00:25:18] amongst the Muslim. community and lot of
[00:25:21] people have become so uh
[00:25:24] concerned about stepping up to the plate
[00:25:28] and being an america americans, mean being
[00:25:32] american means that you have to stand up for your rights,
[00:25:35] that you speak your mind, you have freedom
[00:25:39] of worship, freedom of speech,
[00:25:43] well none of this has really flourished in
[00:25:47] our community after 9/11, most people are scared. to come up and
[00:25:50] speak their mind, simply because they've seen what happens to those
[00:25:54] who spoke. controlling the community is controlling their
[00:25:57] minds, controlling
[00:26:01] their feelings. they will all the time be
[00:26:05] watchful not to say things they like to
[00:26:09] say, they will say things that the government would like to
[00:26:13] hear, not to do anything
[00:26:17] that they show that they are full citizen who exercise
[00:26:20] their full rights. think a lot of people were just very
[00:26:23] scared, like they wouldn't really talk about
[00:26:27] things or they would try to like distance
[00:26:30] themselves, so... I think it's more of just just trying to get
[00:26:34] by, trying to live their lives, go to school, get a job, like
[00:26:38] just live normal life and not really so much
[00:26:41] involvement outside of
[00:26:43] that,
[00:26:54] back in Tampa, the Magahed family sit down to celebrate the beginning of
[00:26:57] Ramadan, their first meal together since Yusuf's second
[00:27:00] arrest.
[00:27:33] 'I was kind of expecting it that I be released
[00:27:37] but not a specific date because the
[00:27:38] government did not have case like
[00:27:42] they just holding me up for the
[00:27:46] heck of it, the government is profiling people, the are targeting
[00:27:50] people uh
[00:27:54] just based on on their background not of any crimes they
[00:27:57] have done, in my case they of my
[00:28:01] muslim background they'. trying to say I'm a terrorist
[00:28:05] or that and I have to be deported on terrorism
[00:28:09] grounds, they just want you to sign the requesting
[00:28:12] deportation and leave instead of staying and fighting your
[00:28:16] case. We asked Yousuf what he will do Nallity
[00:28:20] as one, who does he want to be held accountable for its years in prison?
[00:28:24] Will he continue to speak out on behalf of others who are facing similar
[00:28:27] charges? His father Samir interrupts before
[00:28:31] Yusuf can answer. don't ask him many question because the
[00:28:35] government still now can make an appeal against him
[00:28:38] do you think they will appeal or do you think didn't know they
[00:28:42] have the right to do
[00:28:44] anything.
[00:29:46] The headlines Iran says a meeting with the Persian golf literal states on the
[00:29:49] Hormo Strate innoman has been postponed through a joint decision by
[00:29:53] Tehran and Muscat. Yemen's
[00:29:57] army conducts new missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia hitting sensitive targets and