Tarikuwa Lemma : When she was 13 , she went to the U.S. thinking she would be studying abroad . She ended up in a detention center for illegal immigrants and spent two years there before being deported back home. ` All the lies and deception comes down to money '' I had been taken from my family in Ethiopia , and then separated from my sisters . Now a college student , she has n't seen her family in Ethiopia for seven years .
Tarikuwa Lemma : When she was 13 , she went to the U.S. thinking she would be studying abroad . She ended up in a detention center for illegal immigrants and spent two years there before being deported back home. ` All the lies and deception comes down to money '' Now a college student , she has n't seen her family in Ethiopia for seven years .