This Imam Refused to Be an FBI Informant. Now ICE Wants to Deport Him.

This Imam Refused to Be an FBI Informant. Now ICE Wants to Deport Him.

It was a humid June morning when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents knocked on the door of a modest condo in North Miami Beach, Florida, just across the canal from Greynolds Park — a relic of the New Deal, shaded by old oaks. They weren’t conducting a sweep. They had come for Foad Farahi, a Sunni imam who had lived in the area for more than 30 years. Farahi was taken to a detention center in Miami and then put on a government plane to Te…