Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen who is autistic and has a traumatic brain injury, was on her way to a doctor’s appointment in Minneapolis on January 13. She got stuck in a traffic jam created by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Minneapolis; Rahman was dragged from her vehicle by federal agents, cuffed, and taken to the Whipple federal building, where ICE processes immigrants targeted for deportation. At Whipple, Rahman witnessed first-hand the brutality that so many others have faced. Denied medical care, she blacked out in a cell as her cellmate pleaded for help. She gives testimony in the video published here to say she is “not afraid” and to pledge to continue to tell the story that others cannot.
