US EditionFederal Judge Orders Immediate Release of Colorado Asylum Seeker Detained by ICE
Judge ruled Mohammad Ali Dadfar’s due-process rights were violated after nearly two months in ICE detention following an arrest without a warrant at an Indiana weigh station.
- On Monday, U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool ordered the immediate release of Afghan asylum seeker Mohammad Ali Dadfar, finding the government violated parole rules and his due-process rights.
- After fleeing Taliban rule in 2021, Mohammad Ali Dadfar served 14 years in the Afghan Army and settled with his wife and four children in Louisville, Kentucky, then Boulder County, Colorado, while seeking asylum.
- At a weigh station on Interstate 94, authorities held Dadfar for five hours before Chicago Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents took him into custody and later transferred him to Greene County Jail, Missouri.
- The court ordered ICE to return Mohammad Ali Dadfar near his Colorado home and restore his parole conditions; his attorney Tiago Guevara said Dadfar is expected to be released and reunite with his family.
- Amid a federal pause on asylum decisions, the case raises concerns as the administration said it was pausing asylum decisions after Nov. 26, while advocates and Tiago Guevara warned against parole revocations without individualized determinations in the Louisville community.
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Missouri Independent
Afghan man who helped the U.S. fight the Taliban ordered released from ICE detention in Missouri
Mohammad Ali Dadfar is pictured after his Dec. 1 release from the Greene County Jail where he had been held since early October. The Afghan's claim for asylum is separate from the case which found Dadfar was detained unlawfully by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (photo submitted).An Afghan man who fled the Taliban has been released from a Missouri immigration detention facility following a federal judge’s ruling. Mohammad Ali Dadfar had…
Broomfield Enterprise
Federal judge orders immediate release of Colorado asylum seeker detained by ICE
A federal judge in Missouri on Monday ordered the immediate release of Afghan asylum seeker Mohammad Ali Dadfar, ruling that the government violated its own parole rule and the “constitutional right to due process” when it detained him without notice this fall. The decision marks a major development in a case that has drawn concern from the Louisville community, where Dadfar had been living with his family for over a year while pursuing asylum t…
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