Deepa Ambikar
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77 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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So I'm walking back to the visitor center of a federal prison.
My hands are sweaty, my stomach's churning, and my heart's beating really fast.
I wasn't nervous because it was the first time I was there.
In fact, I've been to prisons before.
I'm a public defender, so it's not uncommon for me to go to jail and visit my clients.
But it was the first time I was going as a visitor
a friend and a loved one.
Seven months prior to that day, my friend Michael, who I was going to visit, was arrested for immigration violations on a tip from a scorned ex-lover
who had sent a letter to Homeland Security, he was picked up because 20 years earlier he was deported, re-entered the country to be back with his two children, his wife, or actually no, his girlfriend, his several siblings and parents.
He was now awaiting sentence for reentry charges, which held a maximum sentence of 20 years of incarceration before he would be deported back to Guyana.
I knew that once he was transferred to a sentencing facility, it would be sent anywhere within the U.S., so it was the last time I'd be able to see him.
I had waited seven months to finally get on his visitors list, and I was going to have my last hour to say goodbye to him.
I got to the front area.
The officer turned her attention to me, and she shoved some papers at me.
She asked for my ID.
She takes two seconds.
She looks at me.
She's like, ma'am, you can't wear that outerwear in there.
And I was like, what?
I mean, I was dressed in a cardigan with a long maxi summer dress.
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