Iranian mother released from ICE detention after Republican House Majority Leader intervenes
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A Iranian mother, detained by US immigration and customs protection officers, was published this week after the advocate of Steve Scalise, the leader of the Republican house.
64 -year -old Mandonna “Donna” Kashanian was detained by ice officers in the garden of the New Orleans house last month. He has been living in the United States for 47 years, and his husband and daughter were both US citizens.
His family and his lawyer said he was allowed to stay in the USA as long as Kashanian regularly checks immigration officials.
After the increase in community support for Keşanian, representing Louisiana’s first congress region, including New Orleans suburbs, Scalise, Media Outlet told WDSU He asked the Ministry of Interior Security to give Kashanian a “fair jolt”.
Scalise said that Kashanian should be tried on the role of his “work of his life” and his role in his community.
Scalise told WDSU in his statement, “When he was taken to him, we looked at him and said,” Are they really looking at the right way or looking objectively? ” We said “and so on.
In his statement to Associated Press, Scalise’s intervention was “absolutely very important ına to the behind -scene advocacy to ensure the release of Kashanian. The authority added that the next step is still being studied for Kashanian’s legal status.
Scalise’s office did not respond to the request for comments from the AP.
Representing the Kashanian community, Republican Stephanie Hilferty, Kashanian’s humanity, local school region and other organizations, habitat, local school region and other organizations with a loyal mother, a guard, neighbor and devoted volunteer, “he said.
More than 100 Kashhanian neighbor wrote letters of support for him, he said to Hilferty AP and Scalise with the management of President Donald Trump.
Connie Uddo, the neighbor of Kashanian, who ruled the Nola Tree project, where Kashanian and her husband volunteered for years, said, “He became an incredible volunteer and servant to our LakeView community, everyone knows because of everything he gave and what he did.”
Some neighbors wrote letters, saying that some people, such as Kashanian, who expressed their support for immigration policies to Trump, and called him to reconsider his case.
In 1978, Kashanian came to the United States on a student visa and was implemented for asylum based on his father’s support to the US -backed Shah.
Ice New Orleans said in June Send it to x Kashanian could not leave the United States after approved the deportation of the Migration Appeal Board in 1992.
The Agency said, “A judge was ordered to leave the United States and did not.” “We have to come to play the syrup.”
However, his family said that Kashanian was allowed to stay with his husband and child as long as he regularly checks with immigration officials. His lawyer Mayeux said for decades, he said, “He had fully obeyed these conditions and fully obeyed.” While it was displaced by the hurricane Katrina, he even managed to check with the authorities.
Kashanian’s husband, Russell Milne, said that the EP was “extremely grateful için for all the support of his family’s communities and elected officials.
Kashanian met her husband as a bartender as a student in the late 1980s. Habitat volunteered with for Humanity, attracted Persian cooking tutorials on Youtube and pointed to neighboring children.
“He fulfills his obligations, Mil Milne said after being detained. “Retirement age. He’s not a threat. Who chooses grandmother?”
The US Department of Internal Security did not immediately comment on the release of Kashanian.
Other Iranians who have been living in the USA for decades receiving by immigrant authorities and US military strikes to Iran They expressed their concerns that more could be detained and deported. Iran was one of the 12 countries subject to the US travel ban, which came into force this month.
Immigration officials are trying to arrest 3,000 people a day under the directives of the Trump administration.
Kashanian’s lawyer Mayeux said he represented other customers who have established life in the United States for decades and who have been detained and deported.
“There is a tremendous wound that is still for people, May Mayaux said. “The difference is that they cannot reach political power to change the consequences of silent lives and their case.”
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