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How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America

Book by Moustafa Bayoumi · 4 quotes · Immigrants, Arab American, Detainees

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“If you drop her, she’ll break, but she’ll cut you, too. She’s tough and tender, enraged and exhausted, withdrawn and outgoing, a pessimist brimming with humanist hope.”

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“At least if she had committed a crime, she would have stood in front of a judge and answered the charge against her. If convicted, she would have been properly sentenced, and then she would know exactly how long she was to be here. But as a detainee she had no idea when she would be let out.”

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“Never in her life had she thought that she would end up in jail unless she had committed a crime. So why was she here? ... She hadn’t been convicted. She had been abducted. This wasn’t justice. It was revenge.”

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“They found out that the other immigration detainees had been incarcerated for days, weeks, and sometimes months. This discovery was not comforting.”

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