Professors Maryam Tahmasebi and Eissa Hashemi and their teenaged son have been held in an ICE prison since April 2026. The family had been lawfully living in California for over a decade as green card holders when they were targeted by the Trump administration not because of something they said or did but because Eissa’s mother was a student negotiator during the Tehran Hostage Crisis of 1979. This is an unprecedented case of bloodline punishment which goes against everything America stands for.
The law says that a minor held in ICE custody should be released within 20 days. And yet, Professor Maryam and Eissa’s teenaged son has now been detained for six months.