Kim Wehle
- Role
- Law professor, author and legal analyst
- Statement date
Kim Wehle on Did ICE Detain an Entire Family for What Eissa Hashemi’s Mother Did?
“I recently read a disturbing essay that jolted me back into the dark reality that the United States of America is holding tens of thousands of people—including children—in prisons in apparent violation of basic constitutional guarantees like due process.”
Source and context
Original text
About this source
Wehle’s authored legal commentary. It establishes her criticism and legal analysis; factual details about the family remain attributed where the article relies on Tahmasebi’s account.
Before the quotation
Wehle introduced her analysis by identifying Tahmasebi and the family’s detention at Dilley and Pearsall.
After the quotation
She examined notice, hearings and habeas corpus, while noting that courts had not ruled specifically on the family’s detention.
How this statement is classified
Wehle called Tahmasebi’s account disturbing, described the detention system as an apparent due-process violation and argued that the family had committed no crimes.
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- People and groups discussed
- Maryam Tahmasebi, Seyed Eissa Hashemi
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