Defense claims US effort to deport Palestinian mosque head based on forced confession in Israel
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) — Israeli authorities coerced the leader of Wisconsin’s largest mosque into confessing to crimes but never succeeded in tying him to a terrorist organization, his former attorney testified Tuesday in a US immigration court, where the Palestinian man is fighting a Trump administration effort to deport him.Salah Sarsour, a legal permanent resident of the United States, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at his Milwaukee home in late March. A judge released him from ICE detention in June, finding that the government had not sufficiently laid out why it was trying to expel him now after allowing him to live in the US for decades.The Department of Homeland Security says it wants to deport Sarsour on the grounds that he is a foreign policy threat, based on his convictions in Israel in the 1980s and ’90s. It accuses Sarsour of lying on his immigration forms…
Salah Sarsour, leader of Wisconsin's largest mosque, is fighting a US deportation effort based on his 1980s and '90s convictions in Israel. His former attorney, Jawad Boulos, testified in a Chicago immigration court that Sarsour was allegedly tortured in Israeli custody and coerced into confessing to crimes, including attempting to possess a weapon. Boulos stated that Sarsour was never tied to a terrorist organization. The Department of Homeland Security seeks to deport Sarsour, a legal permanent resident, as a foreign policy threat, alleging he lied on immigration forms and was "suspected of funding terror organizations." Sarsour, who has no US criminal record, claims he is being punished for speaking out against Israel. His next hearing is scheduled for September 14.
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