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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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[–] thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 82 points 10 months ago (7 children)

How can trumpers not see that ICE is pissing our money away just to torture good people?

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 68 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

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.

[–] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Drumpf doesn't need voters no more.......

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[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

They enjoy the torment. They're sadists.

[–] imrighthere@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

It's your money they're using, so why would they care ?

[–] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Democratic administrations actually deported more people than Republicans. But the difference is that Democrats do so with case by case consideration and by the book; Republicans, meanwhile, wants to do away with the bureaucracy and blanket deport anyone who have any iota of questionable immigration status. This is precisely what Trumpers want-- get rid of people they don't like by doing away with the rules that hinder their desires.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 76 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I don't understand why they denied her asylum. The case seems really straightforward.

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Likely because her reasoning and fears were at odds with our geopolitics. It'd be like us accepting South Korean refugees for their fear of North Korean reprisal...if North Korea had largely been subsumed and the war was over for several years.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Your analogy makes no sense. This woman came here in 1978 and the Shah was booted in 1979. It is entirely believable that she would have faced reprisals in Iran during the massacres of 1981.

I don't know why this woman was denied asylum but her request was well justified by events.

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

She first came in as a student in 78 but applied for asylum later. And that kind of thing can take a long time to process, years even.

To put it more directly, accepting her request would be a tacit admission that US foreign policy made Iran a more dangerous place, not by accident, but as a side effect of its success.

[–] ItDoBeHowItDoBe@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

The US has swaths of Iranian refugees both new and old. They probably ran her claims and determined that she would not be in direct danger. I have been heavily involved in the refugee community for a long time.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

She arrived before the Iranian revolution. Going back after the revolution with a Western education means at the very least she would have been deemed very very very suspicious. And why would a new paranoid religious government take the risk at all? Easier to purge.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

She wasn't a white South African. 😐

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Maybe Trump thought she was Hannibal Lector.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 65 points 10 months ago (3 children)

What kind of gardening? Violent gardening? Was she sowing the seeds of discontent?

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

She was just gardening there! Menacingly!

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

She was gardening right at me!

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 5 points 10 months ago

She's got a dandelion!

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Hopefully she will go onto raising grapes of wrath. The Trump Regime is in dire need of divine judgment.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago

She's a threat to American capitalist agriculture!

[–] Guidy@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Wow what heroes, saving us from a little old lady.

ICE needs to be abolished.

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

ICE needs to be tried as terrorists and summarily executed

[–] amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

How much do you want to bet one of the neighbors called ice on her? How would ice know if she was Iranian or not?

[–] Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 54 points 10 months ago
[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 37 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

wow, I'm sure that little old Iranian lady sure could've been a threat to other people with her melanin content, thanks Trump for saving the US from disaster /s

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

They have zero compassion, zero empathy, zero humanity.

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

And a lot of them have families and children, who will mirror these ideals in generations to come

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 27 points 10 months ago (9 children)

"gardening" moar liek enriching uranium amirite

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 10 months ago

No, you see, she’s trafficking fentanyl. She’s one of the awful criminals he promised to lock up. /s

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago
[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Make America white again

[–] Paddzr@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

What are these immigration requirements? Surely if she breached them, it would be an easy thing to point out?

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Still waiting for the criminals and bad hombres to be taken. Seems these white little terrorists are acting with impunity...again.

But us black folk would know what that looks like wouldn't we.

Just sad that NOW Hispanics and other minorities (especially the pick mes) are truly seeing it.

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