Homeland Safety introduced Tuesday that it arrested 11 migrants from Iran over the weekend — and one American citizen who was harboring an Iranian unlawful immigrant and threatened to kill an ICE officer trying to make the arrest.
One of many targets is accused of being an Iranian military sniper, one other has ties to Hezbollah and a 3rd is deemed a identified or suspected terrorist.
A number of others have been caught with weapons after they have been arrested — a violation of federal legislation, which usually bars unlawful immigrants from possessing firearms.
In a single arrest in Arizona on Sunday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers confirmed up at a residence to arrest Mehrzad Asadi Eidivand, whose file features a gun conviction and a conviction for threatening a legislation enforcement officer and who agreed to go away the U.S. in 2013 however by no means adopted via.
When brokers made that arrest, a lady on the residence, Linet Vartaniann, threatened to “shoot ICE officers within the head,” Homeland Safety mentioned. She was additionally arrested on expenses of threatening an officer and harboring an unlawful immigrant.
“We’ve got been saying we’re getting the worst of the worst out — and we’re,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin mentioned.
A lot of the 11 had been longtime U.S. residents, together with many who have been ordered deported however by no means left. One, who has two drug convictions on his file, was informed to go in 2005 and defied that order for twenty years.
A person whose file consists of little one abuse and drug convictions was ordered eliminated in 1987. He was residing with an Iranian who got here in 2023 throughout the Biden years.
One other, who had a firearms conviction, was deemed to be a former member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps with connections to Hezbollah, an Iran-backed terrorist group. He was ordered eliminated three years in the past however was nonetheless right here.
