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July 25, 2019 67 mins

When Rais Bhuiyan immigrated to the United States from Bangladesh in 1999 in pursuit of a higher education, he imagined he would be living the American Dream.  But then 9-11 happened, and within days, Rais's American Dream would turn into an American Nightmare. 

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