00:01So what is your rule? You're supporting the immigrant themselves, right? When the officer
00:07calls me up to the door, what are you going to do? Get up and follow me, right? I'm going
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00:14turn my paperwork in at the window. What are you doing when I'm doing that? Walking with me to
00:21that window.
00:34One of New York's best known immigrants rights advocates joins us on what might be his last
00:41day as a free man in the United States. Ravi, talk about what you will do after you leave
00:48Democracy Now.
00:49I'm going to Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices at 26 Federal Plaza and I'm going
00:54to basically turn myself in and hope and expect that they will allow me to come back up.
01:02Do you have a message for President Trump?
01:05I will let my wife answer.
01:10God, I would desperately love for us to have a president who saw the humanity in every single
01:17individual and understood that every person should be treated with dignity and respect.
01:22We will continue to follow what happens to you and we hope to see you again.
01:27I hope so. I hope to be back here talking to you.
01:38This is a regular reporting into my deportation officer. They could and will and want to deport
01:46me. You are at the mercy of someone else and we don't know what's going to happen.
01:52New York City would not be the economic power it is today without immigrants from 150 different
01:59countries. That's the fact.
02:02No to the Muslim ban. No to the ban on refugees and asylum seekers. No. And we say no to
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02:14and hate. No.
02:19Robby could be my parents who came here from Grenada. Robby could be my brother. Robby could
02:25be any one of us. Peace.
02:29When I look out at you, each and every one here, who has come out for me, I'm a woman.
02:36So I thank you very much from the bottom of my heart. Thank you.
02:41We are Robby! We are Robby! We are Robby! We are Robby! We are Robby! We are Robby! We are
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03:27They asked Ravi to come back in one month and to make efforts to get a travel document.
03:37What I saw up there was crazy.
03:39This was the most un-American thing I have seen in a very long time.
03:45It is one thing to hear about people with no legal representation.
03:51It is another thing to see a room full of terrified people facing deportation with no legal representation at all.
04:02I would not have seen that with my own eyes if it wasn't for Ravi right there.
04:06And I want to say thank you so much.
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04:20I am happy to be back here with my family.
04:23But I have to go through this again.
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05:04And I'm not going to sit back quietly and just let them take me away.
05:10I'm going to stand up. I'm going to fight. I'm going to speak about this.
05:12I am going to invite you all to join me.
05:15Keep families together. Keep families together. That's right.
05:20Keep families together. Keep families together. Keep families together.
05:32Turn me round. Turn me round. Ain't going to let nobody.
05:38Turn me round. Going to keep on walking. Keep on talking.
05:44Haunting up the freedom land.
05:48From this chaos and this darkness, we can create something that is wonderful for all of us.
05:54So I move forward. Thinking forward. Acting forward.
05:59One foot in front of the other. And the vision to their horizon.
06:03Keep on walking. Keep on talking.
06:08Launching up the freedom land.
06:11Cause they go to let go.
