U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Role
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security statement quoted in reporting
- Statement date
"ICE law enforcement officers successfully apprehended all three individuals whose presence in the United States posed a clear threat to our national security and foreign policy."
Source and context
Reporting
NBC Los Angeles report on the family’s ICE detention (opens in a new tab)Interviews with Maria Kari and Hassan Ahmad; DHS statement
About this source
Reporting source for competing lawyer and DHS statements. Quoted assertions remain attributed to their speakers.
Before the quotation
NBC Los Angeles reported competing statements from the family’s lawyers and DHS about the detention.
After the quotation
DHS’s asserted threat is recorded as an attributed agency claim, not a conclusion established by this record.
How this statement is classified
The statement explicitly justifies the action on asserted national-security and foreign-policy grounds.
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