11/07/2025
"Dadfar, who had been working as a truck driver for only a few weeks, was caught up in what ICE officials are calling 'Operation Midway Blitz,' a Chicago-based effort to prevent 'alien threats to public safety.' U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said 223 people were taken into custody in a 'successful operation' with the Indiana State Police targeting truck drivers near the Illinois state line.
"Dadfar is not accused of any crime and is following the legal path to asylum, said his wife, who did not want her name used because she is afraid that she and her children will become targets of immigration officials or anti-immigrant groups.
"Marissa Seuc-Hester, who leads a volunteer ministry for immigrants at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church in Louisville, helped Dadfar’s brother. Then she helped Dadfar’s family. The family was “fully independent” for the past six months — until Oct. 10, when Dadfar was detained.
"Seuc-Hester was infuriated by the news, which she learned in a call from Dadfar’s wife. 'There are no criminal charges, no reason,' she said. 'It has nothing to do with him particularly.'
"Dadfar has a legal work permit and a pending case for asylum, a process that typically takes years and requires multiple appearances in civil immigration court."
The father of four, who had settled in Colorado and gotten his commercial driver’s license, was driving a truck through Indiana when he was taken by masked ICE agents in October
