"Torosian can be heard pleading with them to administer medical aid. He can also be heard asking whether they know about the situation in Iran and why Christian Iranians fear returning to their native country.
According to Torosian, the woman and her husband are members of his church and entered the United States last year under CBP One, the mobile app the Biden administration launched to streamline the asylum-seeking process. President Donald Trump ended the program shortly after he returned to office.
The woman was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where ICE agents were met by immigrant advocates and detention protesters. Torosian said that he was not allowed into her hospital room and that immigration officials gruffly brushed away a nurse who tried to intercede on his behalf.
UCLA Health said in a statement that it treated a patient under federal custody and later released the person."
~ Alicia Victoria Lozano
"Iranian woman suffers severe panic attack as ICE agents arrest her husband"
"He arrived in the United States in 2010 as a Christian refugee and is now a U.S. citizen raising two children in Southern California. But the recent immigration raids and arrests, coupled with anti-immigrant rhetoric from the Trump administration, remind him more of Iran than he ever imagined possible, he said.
'I was seeing a woman on the ground and masked people who wouldn’t show their warrants,' he said. 'I was just shocked. Am I in Iran or am I in L.A.?'
Another Iranian Christian family in Torosian's parish was arrested this week during a scheduled check-in with immigration officials."
~ Alicia Victoria Lozano
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