Margarita Pillado is a faculty member at Los Angeles Pierce College. In 2026, the college identified her as Modern Languages chair, and campus reporting identified her as Academic Senate president.
Case
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.
Role at the time: Los Angeles Pierce College Academic Senate president, speaking at its April 13 meeting
Responding to
U.S. termination of the Hashemi–Tahmasebi family’s residency status and ICE detention
"she has done nothing wrong"
The statement disputes the claimed justification, characterization or causal account without converting the speaker’s assertion into a finding.
Statement dates: April 13, 2026
