Social media has furthered the extremist rise of MAGA RETARDS on the right; WACKY WOKES on the left. Pamela Beheshti posted a story about an Iranian woman whose family served the Shah. Early one morning last week, Madonna “Donna” Kashanian went out to tend her garden as she did nearly every day. Donna, who had been living in the U.S. for 47 years, didn’t know that her life — and those of her family and friends — was about to be shattered.
Let’s get to FACTS void of EMOTION: “Donna was only 17 when she arrived in the United States in 1978 on a student visa, fleeing Iran where her father had worked as an engineer for the U.S.-backed Shah, whose overthrow the following year left her fearful of retribution if she returned. When her student visa expired, she applied for asylum based on these fears, but her claim was denied. Despite her marriage to Russell, a U.S. citizen, in 1990, she was unable to obtain permanent residency.”
Madonna “Donna” Kashanian was in the USA illegally for some 47 years. She was denied asylum; she was unable to obtain permanent residency. She FREELY chose to VIOLATE the laws of the United States of America.
Wow!!! Most importantly, Donna’s father worked for Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. He was a Hitler-type dictator. USA deposed Iran’s democratically elected PM, Mohammad Mosaddegh, in 1953 … because Americans wanted CHEAP OIL and installed a dictatorial puppet to control their government and oil production.
USA supported the BRUTAL Shah to ensure Americans and Brits got CHEAP OIL. In 1979, students led a revolution to overthrow the CRUEL, BRUTAL strongman. The Shah took care of friends lavishly, but terrorized the Iranian people. Donna benefitted from the CRUELTY of the Shah.
Due to the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Donna ESCAPED to USA to avoid jail and punishment. Of course she would suffer retribution if she returned; her FAMILY had assisted the murder, killing, rape and torture of Iranians. USA denied her request for asylum. Thus, she hid out in USA for decades. She is like a NAZI hiding out from Jews after WWII.
Pamela Beheshti claims, “The system remains broken ON PURPOSE. For those of you whom still do not see this is about eliminating brown people — ask yourself this — why are we not seeing illegal European immigrants (white) gaffled up and put in a van to be shipped somewhere with no due process? There’s over 500 thousand of them here currently.”
Like a German family that benefited from the NAZI regime, Donna benefited from the brutality and cruelty of her father’s service to the Shah. She escaped accountability for the crimes of her family. She needs to return to Iran and atone for her family’s involvement.
FULL STORY of “A Mighty Girl”
Early one morning last week, Madonna “Donna” Kashanian went out to tend her garden as she did nearly every day. Donna, who had been living in the U.S. for 47 years, didn’t know that her life – and those of her family and friends – was about to be shattered. Three carloads of masked ICE agents were waiting outside to snatch the 64-year-old New Orleans resident. Russell Milne, her devastated husband of 35 years, says the family only discovered why she had disappeared from their yard because a neighbor had witnessed agents handcuffing his wife and shoving her into one of their unmarked vehicles, whisking her away in under a minute. “Had the neighbors not walked out at the same time they were pushing her into the car,” Russell told The Guardian, “we would not have known she was taken.”
Despite living peacefully in the United States for nearly five decades without a criminal record and with the full knowledge and permission of the U.S. government, Donna was forced to spend a night in a local jail before being transported to a detention facility hours away. “She’s always worked, she’s had a driver’s license, she has a social security card, she’s paid taxes,” Russell emphasized. “She’s been a contribution to the community for her whole life.”
Throughout her decades in America, Donna became deeply embedded in her New Orleans community, volunteering tirelessly with Habitat for Humanity to rebuild homes after Hurricane Katrina, working with the NOLA Tree Project to restore the urban landscape, and serving on her daughter’s PTA from elementary through high school. She even created a French book section in her daughter’s elementary school library when she noticed none existed.
Donna was only 17 when she arrived in the United States in 1978 on a student visa, fleeing Iran where her father had worked as an engineer for the U.S.-backed Shah, whose overthrow the following year left her fearful of retribution if she returned. When her student visa expired, she applied for asylum based on these fears, but her claim was denied.
Despite her marriage to Russell, a U.S. citizen, in 1990, she was unable to obtain permanent residency. According to immigration records, her application was complicated by a brief previous marriage in the 1980s that, while Donna called it a youthful mistake, officials deemed fraudulent, effectively blocking her path to citizenship through her decades-long marriage to an American. Despite these setbacks, federal authorities granted her a “stay of removal” – an administrative reprieve that allowed her to remain in the country as long as she regularly reported to immigration officials. Donna was so meticulous about meeting this requirement that she once checked in from South Carolina during Hurricane Katrina when her family was displaced.
The Trump administration has aggressively expanded immigration enforcement to include law-abiding immigrants like Donna, disregarding their long-time residence, family ties, community contributions, and previously granted administrative stays. According to internal ICE data reported by The Independent, non-criminal ICE arrests jumped more than 800% since April, with only 30% of those in detention having criminal convictions. In May, Stephen Miller directed ICE to increase arrests to 3,000 per day, with officers instructed to “turn the creative knob up to 11” in meeting detention targets.
Immigration attorney Homero López describes cases like Donna’s as “low-hanging fruit as they seek to meet Trump’s quotas.” Although Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem often touts that ICE officers are arresting the “worst of the worst,” federal data shows this for the lie that it is. Government records reveal that the vast majority of those detained have no criminal history whatsoever, with the Cato Institute finding that 93% have no violent convictions. And with the doubling of ICE’s budget in Trump’s massive spending bill, many thousands more stories like Donna’s will likely unfold in communities across the country in the months to come.
As Donna’s family desperately searches for legal help, their story illuminates the human cost of Trump’s cruel policies that treat decades-long community members as disposable statistics in his boastful deportation tallies. “I usually don’t comment on federal issues but this is a local issue, too,” said City Councilman Joe Giarrusso. “Someone living here with the federal government’s full knowledge and approval for nearly 50 years is hardly public enemy number one. This should not happen.”
Meanwhile, the administration brags about its enforcement actions, with DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin declaring, “We proactively deliver on President Trump’s mandate to secure the homeland.” Stories like Donna’s keenly show the falseness of this rhetoric and the deliberate cruelty behind these detention and deportation practices. As former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu observed this week, “[Donna] is absolutely a citizen of New Orleans, a neighbor, and a friend. What possible value can be found in taking her away from us and her family?”
Donna needs to return to Iran and face her people. Let the Iranian people decide her fate. Her father, her family, served a savage dictator. Her father could have fled. He instead chose to become part of one of the most heinous regimes in world history for personal and professional profit.
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