Professor Says ICE Detained Her Family Over What Husband's Mother Did Before He Was Born: 'Bloodline Punishment'

Maryam Tahmasebi, a professor detained with her teenage son, writes harrowing account from inside ICE’s Dilley Center (Credit: Maryam Tahmasebi)

A California professor detained with her teenage son says US immigration authorities are punishing her family for something her husband's mother did nearly 50 years ago, before her husband was born.

Maryam Tahmasebi, a psychology and statistics professor at Los Angeles Pierce College, described her family's ordeal in an essay published by The Nation, which she said she wrote from inside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas.