Saagar Enjeti
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And Serena would translate for her mom.
And it was a very kind of, you could feel the mother-daughter relationship.
She's like, yeah, my mom is pretty fiery.
She's pretty passionate about stuff.
And she was really excited when she got to the U.S.
that she could finally speak her mind without...
the mullahs.
telling her what she can and can't do.
Yeah, she's like, she went to prison for speaking out on politics.
This is how they describe it.
She went to prison for speaking out on politics back in Iran.
Now she's back in prison for speaking out on politics here.
But it's worse here.
In Iran, it was one week.
Here, it's three weeks and counting.
And yesterday was the first day she was really able to speak because she has an autoimmune disorder which requires kind of regular blood transmissions.
She has a hemoglobin level that was down to six.
which people can look that up, that's not good.
She got some pills finally from the GEO group, ICE Detention Center, which apparently pushed her hemoglobin levels back up to eight, which is still not high enough.
But they do not seem to have any interest in offering her the blood transfusions that are like regularly required with her condition.