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.

  • Allonzee@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Who will evaluate need and merit?

    Doctors and academic performance records aka grades weighed by academics, not bloodsucking capitalist leeches.

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      Any metric used as a KPI stops being useful as a metric, have you heard that?

      The very moment academics and such are going to decide on real power, you’ll have the right academics emerge, of “scientific communism professors” kind.