"Last year, Habiba Soliman should have started university to pursue her dream of studying medicine at Harvard. After graduating with honors from her high school in Colorado Springs, where she lived with her family, her dream seemed within reach. Now her world has collapsed. I've lost my dreams, my friends, my home. My family was the only thing I had left, so losing them too makes my life feel meaningless,"
"Habiba arrived there with her mother and four siblings in June, but in January, when she thought nothing could get worse, she was separated from her family and moved to another section of the facility. Habiba and her lawyer believe this is retaliation for a letter in which she denounced not only the injustice of her detention, but also the inhumane conditions endured by detainees in Dilley, where thousands of children suffer the physical and mental harm caused by confinement."
Habiba Soliman graduated high school with honors in Colorado Springs and planned to study medicine. She and her mother and four siblings were detained in Dilley, Texas, after her father carried out a deadly attack in Boulder. Habiba turned 18 in June and was separated from her family in January, after which she was moved to another section of the facility. She and her lawyer say the separation is retaliation for a letter denouncing detention conditions. Detainees describe Dilley as holding families and thousands of children in conditions that cause physical and mental harm. ICE cites her adulthood as justification for separation.
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