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struggle4progress

(124,247 posts)
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 04:11 PM Monday

ICE Detains Woman With Green Card Who Passed Citizenship Exam

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

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EarlG

(23,159 posts)
1. If she'd already passed her citizenship exam
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 04:32 PM
Monday

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)
3. If she had already passed her citizenship exam,
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 05:09 PM
Monday

then she knows more about the constitution than all of ICE put together.

tinrobot

(11,722 posts)
8. She just has to take the citizenship oath.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 06:02 PM
Monday

Maybe a judge could step in and administer it?

Evolve Dammit

(21,184 posts)
2. The cruelty is the intent and the message for all of us, and the world to see. Psychopaths and sadists. nt
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 04:53 PM
Monday

SSJVegeta

(1,341 posts)
4. Lying about something even seemingly innocuous -liek stealing a candy bar 20 year ago,
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 05:20 PM
Monday

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.

B.See

(6,312 posts)
13. Precisely. Her problem is
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 07:31 PM
Monday

she isn't from S. Africa. If so, there'd have been free flights and a red carpet.

PatSeg

(50,881 posts)
6. For every horror story we hear about in the news,
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 05:31 PM
Monday

how many others are there that we don't know about?

SpankMe

(3,576 posts)
9. I'd like more details on the theft crimes she committed
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 06:30 PM
Monday

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.

MayReasonRule

(3,751 posts)
14. 🎯
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 07:42 PM
Monday
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)
10. ICE is going to make those Trump quotas, one way or the other.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 06:53 PM
Monday

No one here illegally? Grab some legal immigrants!

No legal immigrants around? Grab some dark-skinned American citizens!

Ms. Toad

(37,603 posts)
12. Any clue what the video at the link is about?
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 07:26 PM
Monday

The genders don't match the ones in the story - so something doesn't add up.

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