factories, we re going to be fair. we re going to be fair. this is a issue of deep importance to me. for decades i ve raised the alarm over unfair foreign trade practices that robbed communities of their wealth and ability to provide for their families. they have stolen our jobs, stolen our companies and our politicians sat back and watched. hopeless. not anymore. as a private citizen i looked really with sadness as massive shipments of foreign cars have been dumped on to our shores while the same countries have shut their borders so our cars. we take them, come on in, folks, no tax, don t worry about it. we make cars, they don t take us. not anymore. [ applause ]
we re going to be fair. this is an issue of deep importance to me. for decades, i have raised on unfair foreign trade practices that have robbed communities of their wealth an robbed our people of their ability to provide for their families. they ve stolen our jobs. they ve stolen our companies. and our politicians sat back and watched. hopeless. not any more. as a private citizen, i looked really with sadness as massiveshipments of foreign cars have been dumped onto our shores while those same countries have shut their borders to our cars. we take down come on in folks. we make cars. they don t take us.
hopeless. they don t know what to do. you think there will be an exception made? we re praying for that. sanjay joins us. why were the visas denied in the first place? i think the issue really was they didn t have enough proof that they had ties in iraq and the concern was, are they going to come to the united states and basically stay there? that s what they were trying to prevent. they had the visas initially. 2-year-old boy gets the operation, now they can t come see him. they had the visas initially. even despite the fact that they re trying to visit their son. prose operatively. that can t happen right now. were the mother and father going to come when he was having the surgery. this is interesting. mother and father was going to come. mother was pregnant at the time. they could have come. they both had visas. trump, the baby you just met there, the younger brother would have been born in the united states, been a citizen.
hopeless. i didn t know what to do. i had no money. we had nowhere to run. i remember amina walking outside and telling me that i gave up on her, that i m letting her go. she said, this is it. you will never see me again. i admit i made a mistake. i came back here. but i thought i was doing the right thing for amina, for her schooling. i didn t know i was coming back for my daughters to be murdered. i didn t know that. me and my dad were driving down the road. i noticed yaser with the girls
the stories of injustice that have been passed down for generations that seem to be continuing before our eyes. you go through the range of emotions. i know that although i m a law-abiding citizen, i can be looked upon as a threat to those who don t know me. i am sympathetic because i don t know what happened. you used confused, hopeless, hopeful. why do you think it struck such a nerve? i had no idea there would be this type of reaction. i have been flattered and speechless by the response i received. many people have come to me and said that s how they were feeling and they didn t know how they put it into words. when this happens, there a range of emotions. a lot of those emotions come from a build up of your life experiences and how you view the world. for me, a lot of times when something like this happens, i like to write down my thoughts and unpack my thoughts.