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Newly released emails show ICE and Iranian officials worked together on a quiet channel to deport Iranians back to Iran, raising questions about coordination with a hostile foreign government.
Newly released emails show ICE officials and Iranian government representatives operated a quiet back-channel to coordinate deportations of Iranian nationals back to Iran. The coordination happened without public disclosure or apparent congressional notification. The emails reveal that U.S. immigration enforcement was directly cooperating with a country designated as a state sponsor of terrorism on immigration matters.
Coordinating deportations with receiving countries is routine; doing it with Iran crosses into different territory. Iran has been designated a hostile actor by the U.S. government, yet here was a direct operational channel between American law enforcement and Iranian officials. The secret nature of the arrangement is the real problem—it wasn't hidden from allies or the public because it was uncontroversial. It raises a harder question about what else is being coordinated quietly with foreign governments through immigration channels, and whether those arrangements have any oversight.
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