Handcuffed like we're criminals': Ohio teen soccer star recounts deportation
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Emerson Colindres, a 19-year-old soccer standout from Ohio, was recently deported to Honduras following detention by ICE despite having a clean record. Colindres expressed his trauma over the experience, which involved being handcuffed on a flight full of others like him who also had no criminal past. His detention was mentally exhausting, spending most of his time in confinement without meaningful activity. This deportation raises questions about the broader immigration policies targeting individuals with no real criminal backgrounds.
To me, it was kind of more traumatizing because I haven't been to my birth country in years.
You were in there 22 hours in the cell doing nothing, that's crazy - like, that's all mentally draining.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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