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<v ->If you're going back to your home country,</v>

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you probably have some sort of family support.

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You definitely speak the language.

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(laughs)

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You understand the system.

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You know where the post office is.

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You know how housing works.

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You have some understanding of the statutory system

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of the governments, you know, you're going back home.

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But there certainly are places where it's possible,

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you would face arbitrary arrest and things like that.

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Which of course, is damaging in any situation,

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but in a situation where you've been held

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in a legal black hole for a decade,

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is immensely re-traumatizing, of course.

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I mean, it's a no brainer.

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It's a terrible thing to have happen.

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So in terms of resettlement, it's sort of the reverse.

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You might be resettled to a place that you have more

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legal rights, possibly, it's not a given.

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Where you have more legal rights,

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but then you're facing these day-to-day struggles

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in terms of, I mean just not speaking the language

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is a massive thing and not understanding how anything works

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and you know, it replicates, or it can replicate a lot

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of the arbitrary treatment that men experienced

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in Guantanamo.

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You often see this, you know, they often draw parallels

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between their experience in Guantanamo and the new place

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because in a sense, they are seeing this replication

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of when you don't understand the system

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or what your system's not explained

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to you clearly and properly everything seems arbitrary.

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And everything seems like it's being decided

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by some higher authority.