Posted on 07/19/2025 12:21:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The two LSU students say the agents claimed to have questions about a hit-and-run incident to lure them out of their apartment.
Parisa Firouzabadi and Pouria Pourhosseinhendabad allege that ICE officers represented themselves as police in a ruse to get them out of their apartment and arrest them. (Alex Brandon/AP)
Parisa Firouzabadi and Pouria Pourhosseinhendabad were drinking tea on a warm Sunday evening in June when they heard a knock at their apartment door in Baton Rouge. According to court documents, two police officers said they were there to discuss a hit-and-run accident that the married couple had reported weeks earlier — might they see the damage on the car?
The couple, immigrants from Iran studying at Louisiana State University, led the officers to their apartment’s parking lot. Then, without knowing why, their lawyers say, the two were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
After nearly a month in custody and two petitions challenging their detainment, a magistrate judge this week ordered that Firouzabadi, 30, and Pourhosseinhendabad, 29, be released and that all removal proceedings against them be dismissed. Norah Ahmed, one of their attorneys and legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union in Louisiana, said the case illustrates the risks immigrants face in their everyday lives under President Donald Trump’s push to increase deportations.
“There is a broader narrative out there that somehow the mass deportation efforts underway are somehow related to ‘criminals,’ right?” Ahmed said. “The reality is you’re taking two PhD students at LSU. ... You’re taking in our friends, family, neighbors and loved ones — these are the people in these immigration jails.”
In certain cases, ICE officers can legally employ ruses, or deceptive tactics, to access private property. Officers could legally pretend to be from another agency and say they are investigating...
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Anyone can say anything and usually will to make themselves look like innocent *victims*.
Cops can lie without consequences, you can’t.
Lawyer: In calling for elimination of charges, your honor, I cite their unfortunate names. Would you like to be in line at the DMV or airport and have someone call you Pouria Pourhosseinhendabad? Or have them kid you in elementary school all those years?
Deport them.
Lots of SOB story but no credibility. I wouldn't buy a taco from these two pixies if they were the only taco wagon or truck in town.
Illegals are criminals.
The MSM pushes the fiction that if someone here illegally commits no additional crimes, they somehow are absolved of the crime of being here illegally.
THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS. And What Alice Found There
Obviously I won’t register to get behind the pay wall. Anyone have info on what their immigration status is?
Parisa Firouzabadi and Pouria Pourhosseinhendabad
The Name Game by Shirley Ellis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7izuF4oN4c
30 and 29 and still in college
They’re from a couple of old Louisiana families, I see.
That’s really par for the course though. Law enforcement in this country lies all the time to try to get you to do something so they can arrest you or obtain your DNA or whatever.
“Parisa Firouzabadi and Pouria Pourhosseinhendabad”
I wonder what the clue was regarding them.
Another romantic warm Sunday evening in June in America ruined. ROTFL!
If they would just LEAVE we wouldn’t need ICE raids. They are in the wrong. They need to leave NOW. What if the penalty was hanging for illegals in this country? Or Life in prison? What’s going on in ICE raids would look minor in comparison and I’ll bet there are some countries that would impart those penalties with no protest from the people.
Pronto.
That tells us all we need to know.
Law enforcement in this country lies all the time to try to get you to do something so they can arrest you or obtain your DNA or whatever.Sounds like a personal problem.
You have to be a “full-time” student. None of that 1 class a year type.
Came over on the Mayflower.
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