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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Two Fresno metropolis councilmembers are present voicing their enactment for the manager of a fashionable Fresno edifice who's been successful Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody for implicit 60 days.
Fresno metropolis councilmembers Annalisa Perea and Mike Karbassi are present calling for Psalm Behpoor to beryllium released from ICE custody.
"I'm praying to God that erstwhile they look astatine this, the medication understands that, 'Hey, this feline has rehabilitated himself, he's not who helium utilized to be, he's 100% warring for the American Dream,'" Behpoor said from the Mesa Verde Ice Processing Facility successful Bakersfield.
In a missive released Monday, Perea and Karbassi advocated for his release.
"No household should beryllium separated, particularly for idiosyncratic that whitethorn person committed a transgression 20 years ago, but has since made up for that. He served his time. He learned his lessons, and helium should beryllium judged for everything helium has done to lend to our nine since then," Perea said.
Behpoor was thankful to perceive the news.
"I'm blessed that you told maine due to the fact that I emotion those people. I cognize them. And we spent clip unneurotic extracurricular of Pismo's," helium said.
Behpoor has been the manager of Pismo's edifice successful northbound Fresno for the past decade. But since June, he's been successful ICE custody. He says helium was detained aft an migration interrogation successful Fresno.
"I had a sinking feeling successful my stomach, and I said 'Please don't detain me, tin I delight spell location and a monitoring system' and they say, 'Let's spot if we tin marque that happen,' And past I'm going like, 'Let's spot if they marque that happen, I've been compliant. Can you delight conscionable cheque the past 22 years?" Behpoor said, recounting the interrogation experience.
Behpoor says helium came to the United States from Iran, fleeing persecution with his household erstwhile helium was a child. He was fixed a greenish paper arsenic a teen. However, arsenic a young adult, helium served clip for non-aggravated burglary aft taking a plea deal. Because of his record, helium precocious started the process to get his greenish paper again.
"I conscionable privation people to recognize that migration is simply a precise analyzable process and there's antithetic protocols and procedures that we conscionable can't say, like, 'Hey, conscionable nonstop this feline backmost to his country,' due to the fact that it's much analyzable than that," helium added.
Behpoor said the full process has been incredibly difficult, particularly connected his woman and young son.
"I conscionable privation to accidental I americium asking immoderate of the ICE officers listening, 'Please bring my hubby backmost location to us. My lad and I miss him truthful much.' I besides privation to convey you to our assemblage for their enactment and their prayers. It means truthful much," his woman Lera Mirakyan said.
Behpoor said helium should person an upcoming proceeding successful September, and the courts usage letters of proposal similar the 1 the metropolis assembly members wrote to assistance marque decisions successful the case. He says if he's not released successful September, there's a accidental helium could inactive person to walk different 90 days successful custody conscionable waiting for a decision.
