A Los Angeles family spent months in an immigration detention center in Texas, fighting a never-ending battle against the U.S. government — not for something they did, but because of who they’re related to.
\n\nThe mother wrote a letter highlighting what her lawyers are calling “bloodline punishment.” They say they haven’t seen a case like this where a couple and their son were detained for something that their relative did before any of them were even born.
\n\nThe husband’s mother was a spokesperson for the group that took Americans hostage during the Iran hostage crisis in 1979. The State Department is using that connection to detain the family for more than 120 days.
\n\n“We are in tremendous pain and have been trapped in an unendurable, unending nightmare,” family friend Jacob Hart said, reading a letter written by Maryam Tahmasebi that was published in online magazine The Nation.
\n\n“Imagine that you are an independent woman wading through the waters of sexism and patriarchy every day, and then you are told that not only do your own ideas and academic achievements not matter, but you are somehow now responsible for decisions you never made, and for things that happened before you were…
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