Amy Goodman
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17-Year-Old Helps Win Last-Minute Stay of Deportation For His Mom—Now She’ll See Him Start College
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8:01Now PlayingA Bangladeshi woman facing deportation has been granted a lastminute stay following public outcry against her removal. Salma Sikandar’s deportation was halted less than 24 hours before she was supposed to board a oneway flight to Bangladesh, leaving behind her husband and 17yearold son, who is a U.S. citizen. Sikandar has lived in the United States for nearly 20 years. But in June she was told by Immigration and Customs Enforcement that she had to leave the country by August. That’s when her community stepped in, staging protests in New Haven and a hunger strike outside the ICE office in Hartford, demanding Sikandar be allowed to stay in the United States. We speak with Salma Sikandar and her son Samir Mahmud, who will start his freshman year at Quinnipiac University next week. It has been Sikandar’s lifelong dream to send her son to college.
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