Several Iranian citizens who have been living in the US for decades have been arrested under the stringent immigration policy of President Donald Trump.
Mandona “Donna” Kashanian had been living in the US for the last 47 years and married an American citizen, who also has a daughter. His family reported that Kashanians were gardening in the courtyard of their home in New Orleans, when the US immigration and customs enforcement officers took him with him with handcuffs.
The Kashanian student came to the US in 1978 on a visa and applied for asylum here. Her husband and daughter said that she was allowed to live with her husband and child regularly on the condition of appearing before immigration officers.
The family said that Kashanian regularly followed these rules and during the cyclonic storm Katrina, she appeared before the immigration officials in South Carolina. The family said that now Kashanian has been kept in the immigration detained center in Basil and his family members are trying to get information about him.
Other Iranians are also being arrested by immigration officials after being in the US for decades.
However, the US Home Department did not say how many Iranian citizens have been arrested, but after the US attack on Iran, there is a possibility that more such arrests may happen.
Ryan Costelo, the policy director of the ‘National Iranian American Council’, said, “It is prudent to be vigilant to some extent, but what has been done by American immigration and customs enforcement (ICE), it seems as if he has ordered that he has a connection with any Irani, whether he has any connection with any danger or not, holds them out and arrest the country.”
The US Home Department announced the arrest of at least 11 Iranians over the weekend during the weekend during the US missile attacks on Iran.
The US Customs and Border Security told that without giving detailed information about this, it has arrested seven Iranians in the Los Angeles region.
