Nieces of Late Iranian Terror Commander Face Deportation

On April 4, the State Department announced that Secretary Marco Rubio had terminated the lawful permanent resident (“LPR” or “green card”) status of Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter, and that the duo had been taken into DHS custody. Afshar is the niece of Qasem Soleimani, late leader of Iran’s notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who was killed in a January 2020 U.S. airstrike under Trump I. It is a wild story of how asylum has been abused for years in the United States.