O (the declarant from the court transcript)

I wasn't given an explanation for why I was there.

26.

Security guards then put me on a bus.

I think it was around January 27th.

I was handcuffed.

It was freezing cold in the bus because the driver had the AC on.

We had no jackets.

The bus eventually took me back to El Paso in the early morning of Tuesday, January 27th.

27.

I was put in a cold cell where I had to sleep on the bare cement floor.

One officer told me that I had no chance of returning to Minnesota, and that the best thing for me is self-deportation.

She told me that if I fought my case, I would spend two to three more months here in El Paso.

She offered me $2,600 to self-deport.

I refused.

They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.

If I hadn't managed to talk to my attorney who told me a while back that I was ordered released, I might have given up at this point and signed the self-deportation forms because the conditions were so unbearable.

28.

I was taken to a doctor to check my temperature and blood pressure.

I waited at the doctor's office until around 1.30 p.m.

And then suddenly, an ICE officer came and shouted my name.