Iranian student turned around at the airport was deported despite order from a federal judge,

[IronLionZion]

Iranian student turned around at the airport was deported despite order from a federal judge, attorneys say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/22/dehghani-student-deported/



On Tuesday morning, protesters dressed in bulky puffer jackets and salt-stained boots gathered outside the federal courthouse in Boston. They were there to support Shahab Dehghani, an Iranian student who was supposed to be starting his spring semester at Northeastern University, but instead had been abruptly pulled aside by customs officials and told that his visa was revoked when he landed at Logan International Airport on Sunday night.

But it was too late. Though Dehghani, 24, was supposed to appear in court that morning, the college student was no longer in the United States. He had been placed on a return flight to France the night before, just minutes after a federal judge issued an order saying he should be allowed to remain in the country until a court could review his case, his attorneys said.

“We feel this is a pattern of Customs and Border Protection ignoring court orders and ignoring the law,” Kerry Doyle, one of several immigration attorneys working on the Iranian national’s behalf, told reporters.

While it remains unclear why Dehghani was denied entry at the airport, the economics major’s case has angered immigration advocates and members of Congress who say that Iranian students are increasingly being deported or turned around at airports after arriving in the United States on valid student visas. In a statement to MassLive, Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) called it “part of a disturbing pattern from the Trump administration of disregarding the law and targeting Iranian students."

Dehghani, whose full name is Mohammad Shahab Dehghani Hossein Abadi, began attending the University of Massachusetts at Boston in 2015 and later transferred to Northeastern, CommonWealth Magazine reported. After two years in Boston, he returned home to visit his family in Iran. But the break from his studies meant that he had to once again apply for a student visa.

No, not all CBP officers. Many are doing their job correctly like normal people, but a few are unrepentant assholes abusing their power over people who can't do anything about it. And they get support for this blatant abuse from the white house. They are more frequently disobeying federal court orders.

[virgogal]

1. This one student

is getting more publicity than the many kids in the Boston area who can’t afford to go to college.Pisses me off.

[IronLionZion]

2. Different problems

Trump isn't throwing those Boston kids out of the country.

[enough]

3. Two entirely different issues.