It's time for you to leave the United States.

That is the first sentence Z read when she opened an email from the Department of Homeland Security.

It said she had to leave the country in seven days.

1130, I saw that email.

I couldn't sleep.

Like, I was scary.

What should I do?

Should I call to who?

We're only using Z's first initial to protect her identity because she fears reprisal in Afghanistan

and does not want to jeopardize her immigration case. Zee worked for years as an emergency room nurse in Afghanistan,

a job she loved until the Taliban came to power

and reintroduced a strict form of Islam where women have few rights.

One day, Taliban soldiers pulled her off a bus on her way to work and began to scream at her.

Just go. Just go. Why you don't have a laundress? Why you don't have a hijab? You don't have a

Mahram. Mahram, it means you don't have a man. They said, you have to go back. Just go back.

You don't want to go. I will kill you. Zee was scared. She didn't have a male chaperone. She had

divorced her husband when he became a drug addict, and she was raising their two children on her own.

The harassment continued. Zee took a higher-paying job in a different city and left her children with her parents.

She rented an apartment by herself, also forbidden four women under Taliban rule.

One night, men came to her home at 1 a.m. banging on the door.

Talbans when they come, just like that, open, open the door, open the door.

I was just wake up. I was in the shock.

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