TACOMA, Wash. — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained a longtime U.S. resident and Army National Guard veteran during his citizenship interview Thursday, a move an affiliated attorney called “unusual.”

ICE records show Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry, who emigrated from Pakistan and has lived in the United States for 25 years, was taken into custody at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma.

“It is unusual for people to be taken into custody at a citizenship interview,” said Hannah Vickner Hough, legal director for the Washington chapter of the Council on American–Islamic Relations.

Chaudhry’s wife, Melissa, a 2024 congressional candidate in Washington’s 9th District, said her husband arrived at the interview in “good faith.” She described him as a decorated Army veteran and a mem

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