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"Green Card applicant" detained by ICE
Posted on: August 4, 2025 at 10:20:15 CT
Spanky KU
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Been here on an expired tourist visa for 9 years.... Get him gone!!!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/green-card-applicant-arrested-by-ice-while-driving-to-grocery-store/ar-AA1JSfFp?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=55bc01ee026045c8858210c531539b10&ei=70
A Los Angeles doctor has told how she watched on FaceTime as her husband, a Tunisian musician with a pending green card application, was arrested by federal immigration agents on what she called "probably the worst day of my life."
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents pulled over Rami Othmane while he was driving to a grocery store in Pasadena on July 13 and pulled out the paperwork he was carrying, the Associated Press (AP) reported.
His wife, Dr. Wafaa Alrashid, who is a U.S. citizen and chief medical officer at Huntington Hospital, told the AP she watched events unfold over the video call, "They didn't care, they said, 'Please step out of the car," she recalled.
Confirming the arrest, Department of Homeland Secuity's (DHS) assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Newsweek via email on Monday that Othmane's "B-2 tourist visa expired more than nine years ago. He will remain in custody at ICE's Eloy Detention Center pending his removal proceedings."
Alrashid said her husband has since been subjected to "inhumane treatment." The DHS told California news station KABC in a statement that detainees recieve "proper meals, medical treatment, and have opportunities to communicate with lawyers and their family members."
Newsweek contacted the family via GoFundMe for comment on Monday.
Alrashid told the AP her husband has lived in the U.S. since 2015, and though he overstayed his initial visa, a deportation order against him was dismissed in 2020. They married in March 2025 and Othmane promptly filed for his green card, Alrashid said.
On learning her husband had been stopped, Alrashid got into her car and tracked his location on her phone, the AP reported. She reached the scene just in time to catch a glimpse of the outline of his head through the back window of a vehicle as it drove away, the agency said.
"Agents blocked his car, did not show a warrant and did not identify themselves," Othmane's family said in a GoFundMe set up to raise financial support.
The family said Othmane suffers from chronic pain and has an untreated tumor.
Othmane remains in federal custody at an immigration detention facility in Arizona.
"When they took him, he was wearing shorts and a t-shirt and flip-flops," Alrashid told a rally of fellow musicians, immigration advocates and activists outside the facility more than a week after his arrest.
"So he was freezing. Also, there are no beds, no pillows, no blankets, no soap, No toothbrushes and toothpaste. And when you're in a room with people, bathrooms open, there's no door. So it's very dehumanizing, it's undignifying, the food is not great either."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/green-card-applicant-arrested-by-ice-while-driving-to-grocery-store/ar-AA1JSfFp?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=55bc01ee026045c8858210c531539b10&ei=70
A Los Angeles doctor has told how she watched on FaceTime as her husband, a Tunisian musician with a pending green card application, was arrested by federal immigration agents on what she called "probably the worst day of my life."
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents pulled over Rami Othmane while he was driving to a grocery store in Pasadena on July 13 and pulled out the paperwork he was carrying, the Associated Press (AP) reported.
His wife, Dr. Wafaa Alrashid, who is a U.S. citizen and chief medical officer at Huntington Hospital, told the AP she watched events unfold over the video call, "They didn't care, they said, 'Please step out of the car," she recalled.
Confirming the arrest, Department of Homeland Secuity's (DHS) assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Newsweek via email on Monday that Othmane's "B-2 tourist visa expired more than nine years ago. He will remain in custody at ICE's Eloy Detention Center pending his removal proceedings."
Alrashid said her husband has since been subjected to "inhumane treatment." The DHS told California news station KABC in a statement that detainees recieve "proper meals, medical treatment, and have opportunities to communicate with lawyers and their family members."
Newsweek contacted the family via GoFundMe for comment on Monday.
Alrashid told the AP her husband has lived in the U.S. since 2015, and though he overstayed his initial visa, a deportation order against him was dismissed in 2020. They married in March 2025 and Othmane promptly filed for his green card, Alrashid said.
On learning her husband had been stopped, Alrashid got into her car and tracked his location on her phone, the AP reported. She reached the scene just in time to catch a glimpse of the outline of his head through the back window of a vehicle as it drove away, the agency said.
"Agents blocked his car, did not show a warrant and did not identify themselves," Othmane's family said in a GoFundMe set up to raise financial support.
The family said Othmane suffers from chronic pain and has an untreated tumor.
Othmane remains in federal custody at an immigration detention facility in Arizona.
"When they took him, he was wearing shorts and a t-shirt and flip-flops," Alrashid told a rally of fellow musicians, immigration advocates and activists outside the facility more than a week after his arrest.
"So he was freezing. Also, there are no beds, no pillows, no blankets, no soap, No toothbrushes and toothpaste. And when you're in a room with people, bathrooms open, there's no door. So it's very dehumanizing, it's undignifying, the food is not great either."
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