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Iranian students at the University of Alabama say immigration crackdown echoes repression at home
Details about Doroudi’s detention spread through the small Iranian community in Tuscaloosa, where Bajgani and Doroudi are doctoral students. Other Iranian students say they have been informally advised by faculty to “lay low” and “be invisible” — instilling fear among a once vibrant cohort. Doroudi is among students across the U.S. who have been detained in recent weeks as part of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Bajgani said the couple does not know why Doroudi faces deportation and that Trump’s recent visit to the school made her feel like the university was “ignorant of our crisis.”