Lawsuit claims ICE handed asylum seekers' secrets straight to Iran
When you flee an authoritarian regime because they want to kill you, the absolute last thing you expect is for the US government to mail your reasons for fleeing directly to those same dictators.
So, a new lawsuit claims the Trump administration broke federal law by hand-delivering confidential asylum files to the Iranian government. We aren't talking about just names and passport numbers. We are talking about the actual applications where people detailed exactly why they fled—like being pro-democracy protesters, LGBTQ+, or religious minorities.
According to the lawsuit, ICE officials were literally mailing or hand-delivering these files during monthly meetings with Iranian representatives in Washington. They allegedly kept doing it even after a literal war with Iran started.
The defense from the Department of Homeland Security is basically: "We're just helping them contact their consulate!" Which is a wild way to describe handing a regime a literal hit-list of their own dissidents.
Nothing says "humanitarian standard" quite like giving the secret police a customized cheat sheet on everyone they’re about to deport back to them.
Source: NPR
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