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Federal 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 pursuing asylum.
- At a weigh station on Interstate 94 in Michigan City, Indiana, Dadfar was held for five hours before Chicago Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents took him into custody and later transferred him to Greene County Jail, Missouri, where he stayed nearly two months.
- The court ordered ICE to return Dadfar near his Colorado home and restore his parole conditions, and his lawyer said he is expected to be released and reunite with his family.
- Amid a federal pause on asylum decisions, the case raises concern as the administration said it was pausing asylum decisions after Nov. 26, while advocates and Tiago Guevara warned against revoking parole without individualized determinations, drawing attention in the Louisville community.
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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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Montrose Daily PressJudge orders release of Mohammad Ali Dadfar, an Afghan immigrant detained by ICE who helped U.S. fight Taliban
A judge in Missouri ordered the release of Mohammad Ali Dadfar who lived in Boulder County with his wife and four children after fleeing Afghanistan
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