By Evaristo Lara
Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, ordered that the permanent residence cards of three Iranian immigrants be withdrawn on the grounds that their stay in the country should never have been authorized.
As the war between the United States, Israel and Iran drags on, the Trump administration has begun to detain and even expel immigrants of Iranian origin who had been legally residing in the country for many years.
To the arrests of two relatives of the assassinated Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, carried out last week, are added the arrests of Seyed Eissa Hashemi, Maryam Tahmasebi and their son, who They were taken into custody of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE), awaiting immediate deportation. of the United States territory.
The three Iranians in question are relatives of Masoumeh Ebtekar, former Iranian vice president from 2017 to 2021 and who was also a spokesperson for the students who took over the American Embassy in Tehran after the Islamic revolution of 1979.
“As an indispensable spokesperson and media intermediary for the kidnappers, Ebtekar… produced propaganda that falsely depicted the humane treatment of the hostages, arranging scripted interviews in which American hostages were pressured to describe their treatment in positive terms, even while they were held in solitary confinement, blindfolded and starved, and subjected to physical and psychological terror, including beatings and mock executions,” the State Department detailed in a statement.
In addition, He held Barack Obama’s government responsible for having allowed not only the designated immigrants to enter the countrybut even to grant them a permanent resident card.
“In June 2016, just a few months after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized two US Navy ships and captured 10 US sailors, the Obama administration granted the three Iranian citizens legal permanent resident (LPR) status through the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program,” he emphasized.
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“His family should never have been allowed to benefit from the extraordinary privilege of living in our country.
“The United States can never become a home for anti-American terrorists or their families, and under the Trump administration, it never will be,” he wrote.
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