The student arrested at his naturalization interview knew it was coming

Mohsen Mahdawi had a feeling his naturalization assignment would spell awry. A week earlier his gathering with US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Mahdawi called his person Chris Helali and told him helium was concerned. “He thought it was apt — and I agreed — that helium would beryllium arrested, that they would ambush him astatine this interview,” Helali tells The Verge. Mahdawi had been truthful fearful of being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that helium had reportedly been successful hiding for weeks. But Mahdawi couldn’t miss the appointment. According to USCIS, “failure to look for a scheduled interview” astir ever “results successful denial” of a person’s application.

The interrogation was scheduled for 11AM connected April 14th. Helali waited extracurricular the building. “We started to recognize that thing was amiss,” Helali says. Around noon, the radical was told Mahdawi had been handcuffed. Three minutes later, helium was escorted retired of the gathering by 2 Department of Homeland Security officers. Helali captured the arrest, archetypal reported by The Intercept, connected video.

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.