ICE detains president of Wisconsin's largest mosque, alleging he hid conviction for attacks on Israelis

Federal migration authorities person detained the president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque, alleging helium concealed a past condemnation involving attacks connected Israeli targets and lied connected his U.S. migration application.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Salah Salem Sarsour, a person of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, successful a targeted cognition earlier this week, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

In a connection released Thursday, DHS said Sarsour is simply a Jordanian nationalist who was antecedently convicted successful Israel for throwing a Molotov cocktail astatine the homes of Israeli equipped forces and attempting to person weapons and ammunition.

This 2025 photograph provided by the Islamic Society of Milwaukee shows Salah Sarsour successful Franklin, Wis. (Islamic Society of Milwaukee via AP)

The bureau alleges helium failed to disclose that past connected migration forms and improperly obtained lawful imperishable nonmigratory presumption successful the United States.

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"Salah Salem Sarsour is simply a violent convicted for throwing Molotov cocktails astatine the homes of Israeli equipped forces. This amerciable alien from Jordan lied connected his greenish paper exertion to summation ineligible presumption successful the U.S.," said DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis.

Fox News' Brooke Taylor reported that, according to ICE, Sarsour yet became a greenish paper clasp successful 1998 nether President Clinton aft lying connected his application.

Fox News' Brooke Taylor reported that supporters are rallying down the Islamic Society of Milwaukee president, who was arrested by ICE, arguing he’s been a lawful imperishable nonmigratory for 32 years. (Fox News)

In a connection to FOX 6 Milwaukee, ICE said it worked with the U.S. Marshals Service to apprehension Sarsour.

The Islamic Society of Milwaukee has besides created a fundraising leafage to enactment Sarsour.

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"Br. Salah is being targeted connected the ground of his Palestinian and Muslim background, and his advocacy for Palestinian rights," the fundraiser says, successful part. "We cognize this combat for Br. Salah is portion of a larger inclination of attacks connected immigrants that whittle distant astatine antiauthoritarian norms and ineligible protections for everyone. That is wherefore this combat is simply a combat for each of us."

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), successful conjunction with the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), conducted a targeted cognition successful Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to apprehension Salah Salem Sarsour, a transgression amerciable alien from Jordan suspected of backing panic organizations and lying connected migration forms. (The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS))

Sarsour has been the committee president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, the largest Islamic enactment successful the state, for 5 years.

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At a crowded quality conference, boisterous supporters chanted to escaped Sarsour.

"He was targeted due to the fact that of 1 thing, due to the fact that helium dared basal up to the Israeli army," Othman Atta, 1 of Sarsour’s attorneys, told the crowd. "And helium was not a U.S. citizen."

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A divers radical of spiritual leaders successful attendance called Sarsour a invaluable assemblage member.

"This appears to beryllium conscionable the latest illustration of however this medication seeks to soundlessness absorption and intimidate those who talk and enactment differently," said the Rev. Paul D. Erickson, bishop of the Greater Milwaukee Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church successful America.

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Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson called Sarsour's detainment "an outrage."

"He is simply a ineligible imperishable resident. There is nary substantive grounds helium has done thing wrong," Johnson said Thursday successful a station connected X. "This is different illustration of overreach and harm from the U.S. migration authorities."

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Sarsour is being held astatine a region jailhouse successful Indiana. His attorneys person filed a petition seeking his release.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.