Jill Davidson, targeted case manager & social worker, Sara Nelson, program manager, and Yasna Shahbazi, psychotherapist, all spoke in this article on MPR’s website and in the audio story that ran on All Things Considered. The clinicians describe how clients repeatedly say that the situation in Minneapolis is what they fled back in their home countries. Yasna said her client sessions are all “’back to ground zero,’ as if the torture from years ago happened yesterday.” Reporter Cari Spencer also spoke to two anonymous CVT clients, both of whom are hiding at home, about what they are experiencing in Minneapolis now. One client said he is finding hope from the Minnesotans pushing back on ICE. “There are a lot of good people,” he said. “We will remember it. I will remember it.”

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Asylum-Seekers at the Center for Victims of Torture Say ICE Reminds Them of What They Escaped

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Minnesota Public Radio