Iranian asylum seeker detained by ICE after US strikes

Iranian asylum seeker detained by ICE after US strikes

Less than a week after the joint U.S.-Israeli military strikes against Iran in late February, a South Bay couple from Iran seeking asylum said Department of Homeland Security agents showed up at their apartment, detained the husband and questioned his pregnant wife about their ties to Iran’s government. The husband was also interrogated, he said, and spent three weeks at the ICE detention facility in California City before an immigration judge g…