And so he continued to press and say that Carmen was innocent. He contacted lawyers at the Innocence Project, and finally, Experts, judges, prosecutors, everyone, all came together and agreed that Carmen was actually completely innocent of what she was wrongfully incarcerated for. And then when she was freed, because she was totally exonerated, there was the risk that the Trump administration was going to detain her and send her to an immigration detention center. (00:41–00:53)
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Asserts that legal experts and authorities agreed on Carmen Mejia's innocence regarding her wrongful incarceration.
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