Hamed Ali Aziz
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Plane Flips Over in Toronto, and Migrants Trapped in Panama Hotel
The government of Panama is not allowing journalists to come and visit these migrants and interview them. But they're visible from their windows of their hotel. And they were able to get their messages out through holding up signs, such as one woman did, holding up a piece of paper that read Afghan.
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Plane Flips Over in Toronto, and Migrants Trapped in Panama Hotel
Another family of Iranian asylum seekers who had fled for America wrote in lipstick on the window, help us.
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Plane Flips Over in Toronto, and Migrants Trapped in Panama Hotel
My colleague and I were able to get a hold of one migrant in the hotel, an Iranian woman named Artemis Qasemzadeh. She's 27 years old, and she was a Christian convert in Iran. She had hoped to come to America to build a new life and be able to practice her religion, Christianity, freely. Of course, in Iran, converting from Islam is a crime punishable by death, so currently she is
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Plane Flips Over in Toronto, and Migrants Trapped in Panama Hotel
very, very concerned about her future.
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Plane Flips Over in Toronto, and Migrants Trapped in Panama Hotel
This is an indicator that countries that are hoping to come into the good graces of the United States are willing to do things like this, take on hundreds of migrants from countries across the world.
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Plane Flips Over in Toronto, and Migrants Trapped in Panama Hotel
And the Trump administration has not been shy about saying that they will look for all avenues to deport people and that just because an individual is from a country that is hard to deport to, it will not prevent them from being removed from the United States. And this is an indication that they really mean that.
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Plane Flips Over in Toronto, and Migrants Trapped in Panama Hotel
There was no real indication of anything. And then, yeah, we hit the ground and We were sideways and then we were upside down, hanging like bats. And then everybody was just like, get out, get out, get out. We could smell like jet fuel.
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Plane Flips Over in Toronto, and Migrants Trapped in Panama Hotel
And finally... It's the meat. Everybody loves meat, and you can get good meat.