The Trump administration spoke with Iranian officials about deporting nationals of Iran after the United States entered a war with Iran, according to court documents unsealed on Nov. 5.
Noah Adams, deputy assistant director for the removal division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said in a court hearing in October that federal officials have been in communication with Iran since February, according to a transcript unsealed on Nov. 5 and published by The Associated Press.
The nature of the communications, he said, was submitting requests for travel documents and figuring out possible ways to remove Iranian nationals from the United States.
Adams also said that the United States provided names of people from Iran who were being held by ICE who U.S. officials wanted to deport….