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In the air

The return trip to Mrs. Petrova from Paris in Boston, February 16th. While the plane sat on the airport runway, it made text messages back and forth with Dr. Bishkin, in an attempt to confirm how the package is dealt with in customs. But by that time, the passengers were already raising on the plane, and Ms. Petrova lower the conversation.

Initially, Ms. Petrova said, she felt her home naturally. In Passport Control, one of the officers examined the J-1 visa sponsored by Harvard, where he identified it as a vital medical researcher. The officer concluded her passport, and confessed to her in the country.

Then, while she was heading towards the luggage demand, the border patrol officer approached her and asked to search for her bag. All you can think is that the fetus’s samples inside will destroy; RNA easily decomposes. She explained that she does not know the rules. The officer remembers her polite, and told her that she would allow her to leave.

Then a different officer came to the room, and the tone of the conversation changed, according to Mrs. Petrova. This officer asked detailed questions about the samples, the history of Mrs. Petrova and her travel in Europe. Then the official informed Mrs. Petrova that she was canceling her visa and asked her whether she was afraid to deport her to Russia.

“Yes, I am afraid to return to Russia,” she said, according to the copy of the Ministry of Internal Security submitted by her lawyer. “I am afraid that the Russian Federation will kill me to protest them.”

The lawyer of Ms. Petrova, Greg Romovsky, said that the protection of customs and borders has exceeded her authority by canceling her visa. He admitted that she had violated customs regulations, but she said that it was a simple crime, punishable by confiscation and a fine.

Mr. Romovsky said, to cancel her visa, the agents need to determine the reasons for their exclusion. He said: “There are many reasons for not accepting, but violating the customs base is certainly not one of them.”

Lucas Gotting, a professor at the College of Law in Stanford, reviewed the documents in the case and agreed. He said that Mrs. Petrova had been lawful in the United States, and after that “the government created itself as the alleged improper migration situation that has now become the basis of its detention.”

“The subject of anyone to this process is wrong, and this issue is horrific and revealed,” said Mr. Gotting, who held the position of senior adviser to the Ministry of Justice during the era of President Biden and the chief adviser to the Ministry of National Security during the Obama administration.

A spokesman for the Ministry of National Security, the reason for canceling the visa of Mrs. Petrova, said that the examination of dogs had found dishes and bottles of fetal stem cells in their luggage without appropriate permits.

The spokesman said: “The individual was legally held after lying to the federal officers about carrying biological materials to the country,” the spokesman said. “The messages revealed on her phone that she intends to smuggle materials through customs without announcing them. She intentionally broke the law and took deliberate steps to evade them.”

When she canceled the border of the border of the visa visa, Mrs. Petrova, she became an illegal immigrant, among the thousands who have been detained since Mr. Trump took office. She was sent to the Richwood detention center to wait for a hearing where her case will resort to the immigration judge.

Mr. Romovsky said: “If she wins, she will not be deported.” “If you lose, it will be deported to Russia.”

He also submitted a petition for her release in the Federal Court, and I pressed ICE for release in a conditional release. He said, “I am mainly dealing with mercy.” “In a different environment, I think it would have come out a long time ago.”

Mrs. Petrova spent last month in a dormitory lining up with the ranks of a two -scaling family. The atmosphere is cold, and at night, women sometimes tremble under thin blankets. Once a day, they are allowed an hour outside. She said that breakfast comes at different times, and sometimes early at 3:30 am the most difficult thing, she said, is the ongoing noise. The psychiatrist gave her earplugs to help her sleep.

Unable to work, the women around them notice. She said that about half of Latin America in the thirties and forties of the last century who crossed the borders for economic reasons. The second group consists of Asians and citizens of the former Soviet countries, who legally cross the border, looking for political asylum.

She said that none of them deserves to carry under these circumstances. She said, “I thought this is impossible, to be in this situation.” “Even immigrants here, they must have some rights. But it seems that no one really cares about our rights here.”

He challenged America’s view that it formed in Russia. “This is not the type of America that I used to know,” she said.

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