BuzzFeed - Said Muse Dahir kept his newspaper and radio show going in Somalia, even as al-Shabaab militants wreak violence in the country. What happened after he crossed into the U.S. Said Muse Dahir As his friend Ali lay dying in the back of a car, Said Muse Dahir thought it might be time to leave Somalia. The 22-year-old journalist had already been shot twice himself by an al-Shabaab gunman. He said he realized the group's attacks on journalists in his hometown of Galkayo were becoming more frequent, and deadly. "They force us to leave the country," Dahir told BuzzFeed News. Within months, Dahir would begin a journey in search of "first a safe place, and then a place to have free speech" that would take him across three continents to the southern border of the United States. Instead of a safe place, he found himself in in an El Paso, Texas, detention center fighting an ultimately losing battle against federal attorneys arguing for his deportation. After the judge overseeing his case read
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