Curtis Morrison questions DHS about six months of family detention
Curtis MorrisonImmigration attorney representing the family
Morrison challenged DHS's stated enforcement criteria by asking why the family had been detained for six months. His question presented their detention as ongoing.
“If what makes someone a target for immigration enforcement is whether or not they are illegally in the U.S., why have you detained Eissa Hashemi, his wife, and minor child in Texas now for 6 months?”
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Did ICE Detain an Entire Family for What Eissa Hashemi’s Mother Did?
On April 11, 2026, the U.S. State Department said it had terminated the lawful permanent resident status of Seyed Eissa Hashemi, Maryam Tahmasebi, and their son, and that ICE had them in custody pending removal. Officials cited family ties and foreign-policy or national-security grounds; the family, its lawyers, and other commentators have disputed the action as family-based punishment. This case records those competing positions without deciding the legal validity of the action or the family’s current status.
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Morrison, an attorney for the family, questioned why DHS had detained Hashemi, his wife and their son for six months. He replied to a DHS thread about a separate New York shooting. His post reports ongoing detention as counsel; it does not establish a new court ruling.
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Morrison posted a reply to a DHS post.
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Morrison's post is dated October 10 at 03:19 UTC, which is October 9 at 11:19 p.m. Eastern.
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The reference point is whether ICE detained the family for what Eissa Hashemi's mother did. Morrison asks DHS why, if enforcement turns on whether someone is illegally in the U.S., it has detained Hashemi, his wife and their minor child "in Texas now for 6 months". That disputes DHS's account of whom it targets as applied to this family, so we labeled it Challenged characterization. The closest competing label is Condemned; it loses because the post questions the stated criteria rather than expressly denouncing the detention.
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