Immigration attorneys are pushing back on Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s claims that a St. Paul, Minnesota man they detained over the weekend had ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
ICE agents arrested 56-year-old Mehran Makari Seheli at his St. Paul home on Sunday, alleging he was a former member of the IRGC who has lived illegally in the U.S. since 1998.
“He’s been in the the U.S. for 27 years now, never been hiding from authorities,” said Bruce Nestor, who has represented Seheli in the past. “He was just astounded. No one would tell him what was going on. Nothing had changed in his life.”…