Denise Robb

Denise Robb is a political science professor at Los Angeles Pierce College. She has spoken publicly about immigration enforcement and its effects on the college community.

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U.S. termination of the Hashemi–Tahmasebi family’s residency status and ICE detention

On April 11, 2026, the State Department said it terminated the Hashemi–Tahmasebi family’s lawful permanent-resident status and that ICE held them pending removal. Officials cited family ties and foreign-policy or national-security grounds; the family and its lawyers called the action family-based punishment.

Immigration PolicyUpdated September 11, 2026

Statements by Denise Robb

Denise Robb

Role at the time: Los Angeles Pierce College political science professor

May 12, 2026Condemned

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U.S. termination of the Hashemi–Tahmasebi family’s residency status and ICE detention

"now it’s happened to one of us"

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Pierce College follow-up interviews on Tahmasebi’s detentionDenise Robb’s directly attributed comments and Aracely Aguiar’s account of class arrangements

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