ICE Handcuffed My Husband In Front Of My Daughter And Me. The Impact On Our Lives Has Been Devastating.

“There is no true cure for the grief borne from the taking of one’s father.”

My husband, Shahrokh, proposed in early 2009. We met two years earlier at Sarita’s Mexican Restaurant in San Antonio where he was working as a server.During one of my visits to the restaurant, I was reading a book in preparation for a trip I was taking to Washington, D.C., and we spoke for the first time when he asked me about Washington and why I was going.

After chatting for a while, he asked for my phone number so that he could take me on a date. I asked him for his number instead, telling him I would call after I returned. I kept my word, and we began dating shortly after.

We were married on Oct. 20, 2009, at the Justice of the Peace with family, friends and some co-workers present. I wore an off-white skirt suit, and he wore a brown dress shirt and pants. I had corsages ordered for the occasion instead of a bouquet.

After the ceremony, we went for lunch at a French restaurant and ate cake. It was one of the happiest days of my life. Our love story feels like a fairy tale.

But our happily ever after came under attack on June 22, 2025, when my husband was taken from our home. Officers with the Department of Homeland Security came to the house, placed Shahrokh in handcuffs, and arrested him in front of our 12-year-old daughter and our neighbors. Since then, he has been incarcerated in three different immigration detention facilities.