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Published Sep 01, 2025 at 11:27 AM EDT
Updated Sep 01, 2025 at 3:14 PM EDT
By Jesus Mesa
Hooshang Aghdassi, a Studio City business owner from Los Angeles, says his wife, Sharareh Moghadam, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shortly after completing her U.S. citizenship exam and attending a scheduled immigration appointment.
Moghadam, an Iranian national and legal U.S. resident, was awaiting her naturalization ceremony when she was taken into custody and transferred to a detention facility in Phoenix.
"She had green card and passed exam for citizenship and was waiting for the ceremony," Aghdassi told NBC Los Angeles. "She is not a bank robber or thief or criminal" ...
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-woman-green-card-passed-citizenship-exam-spouse-2122663

EarlG
(23,159 posts)then she was about a month away from becoming a naturalized citizen when she was arrested.
So much for "the worst of the worst." It seems that a lot of the people ICE are picking up are here legally. This person was a legal permanent resident, who was a few weeks away from becoming a naturalized citizen.
soldierant
(8,889 posts)then she knows more about the constitution than all of ICE put together.
tinrobot
(11,722 posts)Maybe a judge could step in and administer it?
Evolve Dammit
(21,184 posts)SSJVegeta
(1,341 posts)Could be enough to technically revoke their green card, etc.
Obviously overkill, but I thinkn our processes do allow the governemnt to do this. Although it hasn't until now because the people running it weren't complete psychos.
ananda
(32,937 posts)That is all.
B.See
(6,312 posts)she isn't from S. Africa. If so, there'd have been free flights and a red carpet.
PatSeg
(50,881 posts)how many others are there that we don't know about?
RandomNumbers
(18,861 posts)
Our tax dollars at work.

SpankMe
(3,576 posts)If she was actually convicted of two separate "theft offenses", then why was she not deported in 2015 or 2019 when they happened?
I surmise that she was never caught because the criminal justice files and immigration files have incompatibilities or are maybe even firewalled from each other and, short of someone reporting her to immigration, there was little chance of deportation in the past.
One of the things that Elon's teen computer Nazis and Palantir company have done is to consolidate all federal government records on US citizens so that there is one-stop shopping for witch hunts and persecution. Now, the new Nazi party can enter a name and learn everything about a citizen from criminal history, to tax data, to immigration status, to government business records - everything. They can now cherry pick stress points on people from a single computer terminal.

LudwigPastorius
(13,308 posts)No one here illegally? Grab some legal immigrants!
No legal immigrants around? Grab some dark-skinned American citizens!
kevink077
(489 posts)Unfortunately we have at least 3 years of fascism left
Ms. Toad
(37,603 posts)The genders don't match the ones in the story - so something doesn't add up.