“They thought I was anti-American because I didn’t want to compromise, but in my high-school ethics class we had Communists, Democrats, Republicans, Gothics — all types. In all our classes, we were told, ‘You speak up, you give your opinion, and you defend it.’”

Tashnuba Hayder, a 16 year old girl, was deported with her mother and sister to Bangladesh, after being held by the FBI on suspicion of terrorist leanings. Tashnuba believes she was targeted because she was not a citizen, and that her detention was a result of her exercising her right to freedom of speech and expression of religion.  She was picked up by FBI agents posing as youth services workers, in an effort to combat the FBI’s growing concern over potential teenage suicide bombers within the United States.

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