(CNN) Nadia Murad came to the Oval Office on a mission.

"They killed my mom, my six brothers," Murad said. "They are in mass graves."

But ISIS' reign of terror was not confined to murder. Murad survived sex slavery and torture at the hands of ISIS, before escaping and becoming an advocate for her minority community in Iraq. That work brought her to this moment: urging a President who has vowed to stem, and in some cases zero out, immigration to the United States to help those forced from their homes.

While the President nodded, Murad explained that the plight of her people, the Yazidi ethnoreligious minority, did not end when ISIS was driven out of Iraq. Rather, she laid out how the half-million remaining Yazidis still don't have a safe home and how many have fled their homeland. She asked for help for her Yazidi community to return to Iraq or find a safe home elsewhere.

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