Montgomery, Ala. – An Iranian mechanical engineering student at the University of Alabama has decided to self -support after six weeks at a Louisian detention center despite the fact that the government left a position behind its initial arrest, said its lawyer and promised.
Arrion Dorou s arrested for immigration Officials in March as part of President Donald Trump generalized Immigration repression And it has been held in an installation in Jena, Louisiana, more than 300 miles (480 kilometers) where she lived with her fiancee in Alabama.
At the time the State Department said that Doroudi raised “important national security concerns.”
However, Doroudi’s lawyer, David Rozas, said the government has not offered any evidence to support that statement.
Doroudi’s visa was revoked in June 2023. The officials did not give a reason and ignored numerous investigations of him that year, according to his fiancee, Sama Ebrahimi Bajgani.
At that time, the University of Alabama advised Doroudi to legally allowed him to stay, but he would not be allowed to re -enter if he left, Bajani added.
This spring, the government presented two charges against Doroudi to justify the deportation of it, saying that its visa was revoked and that it was not “in status” as a student, Roxas said.
On Thursday, a United States government lawyer withdrew the first of them and said that the revocation of the visa was “prudential”, which means that it would not go into force until after leaving the country, in line with what the university told Doroudi before.
Ronas said he has presented evidence that disputes the remaining accusation, which is not an active student.
A state department spokesman declined to comment on the case, including the characterization of rozas of the initial arrest as an error.
The judge in the case, Maithe González, gave both parties until the end of May to refill the motions and denied Doroudi’s request to redetermine eligibility for bail. Doroudi decided to give up instead of continuing to fight for deportation.
“He told me that if they let him out, there was a good possibility that he had fought against his case for the good of other students and for the good of himself,” Bajgani said later by phone. “They just want him to get tired so he can deport himself.”
Bajgani, who led 11 round trip hours to attend the audience of an hour, echoed the confusion of Rozas on why Doroudi was attacked for deportation, saying that he has no criminal record, legally entered the country and was not politically out Like other students They have been attacked.
She affectionately described his fiance As “nerd” and “a great thinker” who spent long days in the laboratory and enjoys anime. He does not deserve what happened to him, he said, and now the life they built in Alabama is over.
“I am not happy with everything that happened to us, and I need time to cry for what I’m going to leave behind and leave,” Bajani said. “All the dreams, friendships and dreams we had between us.”
In a letter to Bajgani from later bars in April, Doroudi described his arrest as a “pure injustice.”
“I didn’t cause any problem in this country,” he said. “I didn’t enter illegally. I followed all legal paths.”
Ronas said he has not seen such a case in his 21 years as an immigration lawyer. He accused the authorities to deny due process of his client and force him to choose between indefinite detention and self -sports.
“I am absolutely devastated,” said Roxas, “and I think it’s a parody of justice.”
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