TV News LIES

Tuesday, Jul 01st

Last update11:55:55 PM GMT

You are here News Politics She's in ICE detention. From 1,500 miles away, his piano lulls her to sleep.

She's in ICE detention. From 1,500 miles away, his piano lulls her to sleep.

E-mail Print PDF

Petrova in detentionEvery night at midnight, Will Trim sits down to the piano in his Boston apartment and waits for lights out in the Louisiana ICE detention center where his best friend is being held.

His cellphone rings. On the other end, Kseniia Petrova is silent. She leans against a brick wall in a freezing ward with 101 other women, cradling one of six working phones to her ear. She listens.

Trim plays Bach or Chopin to calm her until the jail line clicks off at the 15-minute mark and she – a shy, 30-year-old Harvard scientist with no history of immigration violations or criminality – retreats to the bunk where she has slept for nearly three months in immigration detention.

"I know he is very worried about me," Petrova told USA TODAY, using one of the phones.

"Maybe I should be tougher," said Trim, a biologist, who works in a Harvard Medical School lab with Petrova, his colleague and roommate. "But even after three months, the music doesn’t sing anymore unless she calls and wants to hear it."re..

More...

 


Most Recent Related Stories...


Undocumented immigrants face massive fines under new Trump rule

ICE protestMillions of people living illegally in the United States are facing stiff new fines from the...

Crockett questions Melania Trump’s reported ‘Einstein visa’: ‘The math ain’t mathin”

Jasmine Crockett Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) questioned first lady Melania Trump’s reported “Einstein visa” at a House hearing...

US citizen arrested during Ice raid in what family describes as ‘kidnapping’

US Citizen arrested during ICE raid A US citizen was arrested during an immigration raid in downtown Los Angeles this week in...

Trump Melts Down Over '100% Communist Lunatic' Zohran Mamdani's Win

Zohran MamdaniPresident Donald Trump labeled New York City’s Democratic mayoral nominee a “100% Communist Lunatic” on Wednesday,...
 
America's # 1 Enemy
Tee Shirt
& Help Support TvNewsLIES.org!
TVNL Tee Shirt
 
TVNL TOTE BAG
Conserve our Planet
& Help Support TvNewsLIES.org!
 
Get your 9/11 & Media
Deception Dollars
& Help Support TvNewsLIES.org!
 
The Loaded Deck
The First & the Best!
The Media & Bush Admin Exposed!