Madonna ‘Donna’ Kashanian, 64, was taken by plainclothes officers from her home in New Orleans

A 64-year-old Iranian woman, who has lived in the US for 47 years, was detained by immigration agents on Sunday morning while gardening outside her home in New Orleans.

According to a witness, plainclothes officers in unmarked vehicles handcuffed Madonna “Donna” Kashanian and transported her to a Mississippi jail before transferring her to the South Louisiana Ice processing center in Basile, reports Nola.

Kashanian arrived in the US in 1978 on a student visa and later applied for asylum, citing fears of persecution due to her father’s ties to the US-backed Shah of Iran. Her asylum request was ultimately denied, but she was granted a stay of removal on the condition she comply with immigration requirements, a condition her family says she always met.

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      Trumpers only see Trumpers as “good people.” if they could press a button and watch everyone around them who isn’t one die in agony for the schaudenfreude of it, they would.

      That’s why they’re trying to turn empathy into a character deficit and slur.

      This is what separates them from everyone else. I’m an extreme leftist, something some low information Americans incorrectly paint as just as extreme as the MAGA cult, when I want that MAGA cult to have access to Healthcare based on need, higher Ed based solely on merit, conditionless housing and social supports, while they want me dead, and preferably painfully.

      I pity them because they were made by for profit media propaganda meant to divide and profit.

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        to have access to Healthcare based on need, higher Ed based solely on merit,

        Who will evaluate need and merit?

        “Meritocracy” is the one word communists here in Russia use that I’ve learned to absolutely hate, they mean by that a hierarchical system where it’s administratively decided who behaved well and who didn’t.

        See, that’s the problem with leftists, always trying to use contrasts to make their virtue signaling look better.

        Most leftists are like “we haven’t yet invented a system, but we will compare an imagined one fulfilling all our desires to the worst real world ones”. And those who are inventing systems, are the least popular - cause such a thought experiment system will already be worse than one fulfilling all desires. Not talking sweet enough.

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        The really stupid thing is, this woman might have been pro-Trump, there are other minorities that are. Trump people are so short sighted.

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      They don’t actually care about pissing money away. They enjoy good people getting tortured because they hate them and do not see them as people.

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        They do see them as people, but specifically bad people. A non-person would be beneath their notice. A bad person on the other hand, becomes the target of their wrath and cruelty and it is justified to do this to them because they are bad.

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      The Trumper cult will hate and kill at any cost. That’s their main MO, hatred and to inflict pain. They are 100% objectively bad people.

      In a lot of situations there are just good people in bad situations, but no, these are, by any measure, simply bad (sub)humans. They are irredeemable sociopaths and a net negative on society.