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Demovictory9

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Fri Jul 4, 2025, 10:04 PM Jul 2025

ICE to Deport Iranian Facing Death Sentence for an Affair,/ ICEvshady methods to enter w/o warrant



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ICE to Deport Iranian Facing Death Sentence for an Affair, Despite Judge’s Ruling
Court blocked deportation under Convention Against Torture before

When ICE and state troopers showed up at Bahlouli’s door in Austin last week, his wife tried to tell them he wasn’t home. They persisted. She told them he’d be killed in Iran. Officers told her they could send him somewhere else. She asked: “Where?” They had no answer.

In the video, she is wearing a teal dress, blinking her eyes like she’s just woken up, cracking the door open just enough to speak to the officers. She is an asylee from Afghanistan, a legal permanent resident. “The judge said he cannot be removed to Iran,” she tells the men. They wear sunglasses and baseball caps with guns strapped to their thighs. “He’s a very good person,” she tells them.
An officer responds: “Everybody’s a good person until they show their true colors.”
She shows them his court documents, tells them he is authorized to work, tells them he has a social security number, goes back and forth with them about the judge’s order to withhold his removal.
“I don’t want him to die. I don’t want him to,” she says.
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The officers insist that she needs to let them in. The warrant for Bahlouli’s deportation will not allow them to enter without her permission, but they say it doesn’t matter – they will just come back with a criminal warrant. Then they could break down the door if they want. They tell her: “You’re harboring him,” and, “You’re gonna get in trouble too.”
They tell her: “We’re not gonna hurt him. That’s not our job.”

After a few minutes, she steps out of view behind the door. Then the door closes.
That was a felony, ICE argued, pointing to a rarely used statute that penalizes actions “preventing or hampering the alien's departure." They claimed it was Bahlouli himself who “slammed” the door, hindering his own departure. With this suspected felony, they claimed authority to kick down the door. So they did, and took Bahlouli away.
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ICE to Deport Iranian Facing Death Sentence for an Affair,/ ICEvshady methods to enter w/o warrant (Original Post) Demovictory9 Jul 2025 OP
I wish I could scream loud enough to stop this madness. chowder66 Jul 2025 #1
Law enforcement lies all the time when this situation happens. AZ8theist Jul 2025 #2

AZ8theist

(7,638 posts)
2. Law enforcement lies all the time when this situation happens.
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 12:56 AM
Jul 2025

Your best bet is DO NOT ANSWER THE DOOR. Have security cams record everything.
Stay silent, call your attorney. If the cops don't leave, they are trespassing.

There are plenty of law firms out there with YouTube channels explaining exactly what one should do in these circumstances.
Of course, with the Fascist dictatorship now evolving, our Constitutional rights are likely just a fart in the wind right now.

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