What is the logic behind this deportation? What is the purpose?

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Iranian immigrant who has lived in New Orleans nearly 50 years arrested outside Lakeview home


An Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for 47 years and has no criminal record was detained by federal agents Sunday morning as she gardened outside her Lakeview home.

Mandonna "Donna" Kashanian, 64, was handcuffed and placed in the back of a pickup truck by agents who arrived in three unmarked vehicles, a witness said. She was transported to Hancock County, Mississippi, where she spent a night in the local jail before being moved to the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile.

Kashanian came to the United States in 1978 on a student visa and eventually applied for asylum, but her claim was denied. Federal officials granted her a reprieve to stay in the country provided she follow the law and appear at regular immigration appointments. Family members say Kashanian never missed one of those appointments and has never been accused of a crime.

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Kashanian was 17 when came to the United States, her husband said. When her student visa expired several years later, she applied for asylum. Her father had worked in Tehran as an engineer for the U.S.-backed Shah, whose regime toppled in 1979, and Kashanian feared retribution if she returned, her husband said.

While her asylum application wound its way through the courts, Kashanian built a life in New Orleans. She tended bar in the French Quarter, where she met Milne, who managed a restaurant where Kashanian would kill time after shifts. The two married in 1988.

Kashanian's application was rejected by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals over a decade later, but federal authorities granted her a "stay of removal" — an administrative reprieve handed out at immigration officials' discretion under which they agree not to deport someone provided they appear as ordered for immigration check-ins.

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"She’s always worked, she’s had a driver’s license, she has a social security card, she’s paid taxes," Milne said. "She’s about to qualify for Medicare. She’s been a contribution to the community for her whole life."

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Rather than a legally binding order, the administrative measure Kashanian was living under is imposed at ICE's discretion. Trump's administration is revoking many of them.

"Those cases are low-hanging fruit as they seek to meet Trump's quotas," he said.

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