Ice arrests Oregon chiropractor as he was dropping off child at preschool

An Oregon begetter was taken into US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) custody portion dropping disconnected his kid connected 15 July astatine a preschool successful the Portland-area municipality of Beaverton, the bureau confirmed.

The man, identified by Ice arsenic 38-year-old Iranian national Mahdi Khanbabazadeh, was arrested extracurricular Guidepost Montessori schoolhouse aft being stopped by agents en route. An Ice spokesperson said successful a connection that Khanbabazadeh entered the state legally but overstayed his visa.

The spokesperson said that aft the postulation stop, officers allowed Khanbabazadeh to thrust to the schoolhouse to driblet disconnected his child, but there, helium “stopped cooperating, resisted apprehension and refused to exit his vehicle”. Officers broke a model during the arrest, and the kid was not harmed, according to the spokesperson.

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Caroline Medeiros, an migration lawyer whose kid attends the aforesaid preschool arsenic Khanbabazadeh’s, told section quality that helium was joined to a US citizen, worked arsenic a chiropractor and had already applied and interviewed for a greenish card.

The Guardian contacted Medeiros and has not yet received a response.

In a connection to the Guardian, Angel Ignacio, determination manager astatine Guidepost Global Education, said the enactment was “deeply disturbed by what took spot successful our South Beaverton schoolhouse parking batch 7/15/2025.

“While we are inactive moving to recognize the afloat details of the situation, we tin corroborate that a instrumentality enforcement enactment occurred during schoolhouse hours and progressive the apprehension of a genitor by national agents. Our archetypal precedence is the information and affectional wellbeing of the children successful our care. We are actively supporting the affected kid and family, and we are providing our unit and families with resources to assistance them process this lawsuit with attraction and sensitivity,” Ignacio said.

“We are besides reviewing the circumstances surrounding this incidental and taking steps to guarantee that our campuses stay a harmless and unafraid situation for each members of our schoolhouse community. Because this involves a national instrumentality enforcement substance and backstage individuals, we are constricted successful what we tin stock further. We inquire for compassion and respect for the family’s privateness during this hard time.”

This was the archetypal confirmed national migration apprehension astatine an Oregon school, according to section news.

Ice agents person been historically blocked from making arrests astatine schools, places of worship, hospitals and different delicate locations, but the Trump medication overturned the argumentation this twelvemonth successful its wide crackdown connected unlawful immigration.

The medication has said it is focused connected removing convulsive criminals who are successful the state unlawfully. However, probe by the Cato Institute recovered that 93% of radical arrested by Ice since October 2024 had nary convulsive convictions, and 65% had nary transgression convictions astatine all. Khanbabazadeh appears to person nary transgression record.

Randy Kornfield, who was dropping disconnected his four-year-old grandson astatine the Montessori schoolhouse during Khanbabazadeh’s arrest, told section quality helium saw officers successful constabulary vests and unmarked cars “laying successful wait” for the begetter and acting successful a “cold and uncaring” manner.

Khanbabazadeh remains successful Ice custody pending removal proceedings, according to the agency.