In addition, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a U.S. citizen who is alleged to have harbored one of the Iranian nationals and threatened to “shoot ICE officers in the head,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. Unrelated to the arrests, a New York City-based immigration lawyer said ICE took an Iranian client of his into custody Monday even though he does not have a criminal record and was granted asylum in August after he told a judge he faced persecution in Iran for converting to Christianity. Hamid Reza Bayat, who was also arrested in Houston, was in the country in defiance of an immigration judge’s order to leave the United States that was issued Aug. 4, 2005, according to DHS.
Author: Corky Siemaszko
Published at: 2025-06-24 22:30:21
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