Wife of Virginia Tech PhD student detained by ICE says ‘status story is just an excuse’

Aliyeh Hashemi says her husband Yousof Azizi was never a member of any terrorist-linked organization and was in the country legally when ICE agents arrested him.

GERMANTOWN, Md. — The wife of a Germantown father detained by federal immigration agents is speaking exclusively to WUSA9, denying the government’s allegations against her husband and describing the devastating toll his arrest has taken on their two young children.

Yousof Azizi, a 40-year-old Iranian PhD candidate at Virginia Tech’s Arlington campus, was taken into custody by Homeland Security Investigations agents on April 13 outside his Germantown, Maryland home. He is

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