It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC.

Good morning again, everyone.

With us now, La Codier, who was recently freed for more than a year in ICE detention. Originally from East Jerusalem,

then in more recent years from Patterson, New Jersey, Makaa had become the longest detained

person who had been taken into custody for deportation in connection with the pro-Palestinian

protest at Columbia University. She had no criminal record. Her mother is a U.S. citizen.

Raka was applying for legal permanent resident status on that basis. And she was one of those people

who was taken to a detention center in Prairieville, Texas, so far from her home and family in the

northeast. She has a lot to say now about conditions at that detention center,

too, in addition to her opinions about why the Trump administration wants to deport her

and about the situation in the Middle East will get to all of each, or some of each, I should say.

Judges twice ruled that she should at least be freed on bond, but the Trump administration

used technicalities to keep her locked up anyway.

An immigration judge ruled there was no evidence to support the government's claim that

she was sending money to Hamas.

The court found she was sending money to family members and found no connection to any terrorist

organization. Mayor Zeranamamani personally asked President Trump for La Caz release when the two men

met at the White House last month. Finally, there came a third court ruling that she should be

released on bond while her deportation case continues.

This time, the government did not appeal, and so La Cacardia is now back in New Jersey,

detained in March of last year, released in March of this.

La Caudia joins us now, along with an attorney who represents her, Sarah Sherman Stokes,

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