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topicnews · July 20, 2025

Immigration liability outside of Oregon preschool rattling parents

Immigration liability outside of Oregon preschool rattling parents


Beaverton, ore. (AP) parents in a preschool in a suburb of Portland appear after the immigration officials arrested a father in front of the school during the morning tax hours and had broken his car window to capture him in front of children, families and employees.


A guard falls on Friday, July 18, 2025, in the Guidepost Montessori School in Beaverton, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane), a child (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

“I feel like a day care in which young children are looked after should be a safe place,” said Natalie Berning, after taking off her daughter in Montessori in Beaverton on Friday morning. “It is not only traumatized for the family, it is also traumatized for all other children.”

Mahdi Khanbabazadeh, a 38-year-old chiropractor and citizen of Iran, was initially run over by immigration and customs authorities or ICE while driving his child to school on Tuesday. After asked if the child could give it up first, he continued and called his wife to tell her what happened, according to his wife, who spoke for her and her young child on the condition of anonymity.

His wife hurried to school, took her child out of his car and brought it into it. Khanbabazadeh stayed in the parking lot in the vehicle and asked if he could pull the children and families into account somewhere on the school premises, his wife said. He pulled himself out of the property and opened the car door to step out when the agents broke the window and, according to his wife, took him into custody.

Kellie Burns, who visited two children at the preschool, said her husband was there and heard the glass shattered.

“We want to express more than anything else how unnecessarily violent and inhumane it was,” she said. “Everyone felt helpless. Everyone was afraid.”

ICE said it captured Khanbabazadeh because he had rethought his visa that his wife denies.

“The officials tried to arrest Khanbabazadeh during a traffic stop when he asked for permission to hand over his child in the daycare center,” said ICE in a statement. “The officials allowed him to go to the parking lot of the daycare center, where he stopped working together, resisted the arrest and refused to leave his vehicle, which led to ICE officers made an entrance by broke one of the windows to complete the arrest.”

Children will be in Beaverton, Ore on Friday, July 18, 2025.

Children will be in Beaverton, Ore on Friday, July 18, 2025.

Immigration officials have been dramatically arrested all over the country since May. Shortly after President Donald Trump took office in January, his administration raised restrictions on the arrest of immigration in schools, health facilities and worship, while they feared to go to places that were once considered safe rooms.

After US military attacks on Iran In June the officials trumpeted Immigration liability of the IraniansSome of them settled in the United States a long time ago.

Khanbabazadeh's wife said that he always retained the lawful status. After he had arrived with a valid student visa and was then married, they submitted all the necessary documents to adapt his status and are waiting for a final decision after your Green Card interview months ago.

Khanbabazadeh is held in the ICE Health Anstate in Tacoma, Washington, she said.

A sign of the Guidepost Montessori School is Friday, July 18, 2025, in Beaverton, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

A sign of the Guidepost Montessori School is Friday, July 18, 2025, in Beaverton, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Guidepost Global Education, which monitors the Montessori School, described the incident as “deeply annoying”.

“We understand that this incident raises broad questions about how law enforcement measures overlap into school -person environments,” said CEO Maris Mendes in a statement. “Isn't it lost?

The parents said they wanted to support the family and the teachers.

“Of course we know that it happens across the country, but nobody is prepared for your preschool … to deal with it,” said Burns. “It was really a nightmare.”