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    The officials wanted to know why she travels to the U.S. so often. Because she loves New York and many of her friends live there, Lara replied. Then the officers demanded access to Lara’s smartphone. “I had to give them access to all my social media accounts and my online banking account,” she says. “Then they disappeared for about an hour with my cellphone.”

    You can’t convince me they’re not just openly robbing people.

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    I see that somebody in the Trump régime thought that the detainee population looked ‘too woke’ and needed some whites in the mix.

    She says the prisoners were assigned numbers instead of names. «I was number 18.»

    https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1802943

    The next day they came after roll call, and they tattooed me. They tattooed me and they told us [that] from now on, this is my name. My name is A‐5143. And they said, “From now on you do not answer by your name. Your name is your number.” And the delusion, the disappointment, the discouragement that I felt…I felt like I was not a human person anymore.