Par for the Course? Los Angeles family detained at immigration center in Texas for four months

for NBC's Los Angeles affiliate reports on a family has spent months in an immigration detention center in Texas, fighting a battle against the U.S. government because of who they are related to.

The removal case is based on the husband's mother being a spokesperson for the group that took Americans hostage during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. "[T]he State Department is using that connection to detain the family for more than 120 days."

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