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LOS Angeles – Iranian asylum seekers who fled the Islamic Republic in the hope of reinstalling themselves in Los Angeles were recently arrested by immigration officials despite what lawyers and defenders are considering credible affairs in the process of court.
The detentions follow a scheme developing throughout the country to target the Iranians as Tensions continue Between the Trump administration and Iran.
Many asylum seekers are Christians who fled Iran and his intolerant opinions on non -Muslim religions. There are 4 million Iranian exiles worldwide, just under a third of them in the United States, according to statistics from the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2021.
Sudden detentions prompted some Iranians to continue knocks on hunger In detention and triggered at least a medical emergency during an arrest attempt.
On Tuesday, an Iranian experienced a serious panic crisis after having witnessed the arrest of her husband near an area known as “Tehrageles” because of her large Iranian population. The woman called her pastor, Ara Torosian, to help intervene, but he could not have had little time for his attack to panic to degenerate into convulsions.
The couple’s lawyer asked that the woman and her husband remain anonymous for reasons of confidentiality.
In a video recorded by Torosian and widely shared on social networks, the woman is lying on the ground in spasming while the immigration and customs’ application agents masked on her. You can hear Torosian to bear them to administer medical aid. We can also be heard asking if they know the situation in Iran and why the Christian Iranians fear to return to their country of origin.
According to Torosian, the woman and her husband are members of her church and entered the United States last year under CBP One, the mobile application that the Biden administration launched to rationalize the asylum research process. President Donald Trump ended the program shortly after his return to power.
The woman was taken to the Ronald Reagan Ucla Medical Center, where ice agents were welcomed by defenders of immigrants and detention demonstrators. Torosian said he was not allowed to enter his hospital room and that immigration officials had refreshed a nurse who tried to intercede on behalf.
UCLA Health said in a statement that he had dealt with a patient in federal custody and then released the person.
“Despite information on social networks, there is no ice operation at Ronald Reagan Ucla Medical Center,” said the hospital.
A lawyer for the woman and her husband refused to comment. Immigration officials did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
The incident left Torosien, he said on Wednesday.
He arrived in the United States in 2010 as a Christian refugee and is now an American citizen raising two children in southern California. But the recent raids and immigration arrests, associated with an anti-immigrant rhetoric of the Trump administration, remind him more of Iran than he imagined, he said.
“I saw a woman on the ground and masked people who did not show their terms,” he said. “I was just shocked. Am I in Iran or am I in Los Angeles? ”
Another Iranian Christian family of the parish of Torosian was arrested this week during a registration planned with immigration officials.
Seyedmajid Seyedali received an SMS during the weekend telling him to come to the Federal Justice of the Center-Ville de Los Angeles on Monday with his wife and 4-year-old daughter, the family lawyer Kaveh Ardalan said.
Thinking that it was a routine visit, the family of three left their dog at home. But when they arrived, they were taken to the basement and arrested Despite an asylum hearing scheduled for September, said Ardalan. They were transferred to a detention center in Texas, where Seyedali’s wife is on hunger strike, he said.
Ardalan said that he had at least five Iranian customers looking for asylum and were recently arrested. He also has customers from Honduras and Venezuela with cases of pending asylum which are now in police custody.
When he will do it, said Ardalan, he will ask immigration judges to release eligible families on bond. Torosian said his parish tried to collect enough to pay the rent for Seyedali’s home if the family is released.
“I’m ready for the fight,” he said. “I represent my people.”
