{"id":70746,"date":"2026-04-02T18:54:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/president-of-wisconsins-largest-mosque-detained-by-us-immigration-agents\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:54:59","slug":"president-of-wisconsins-largest-mosque-detained-by-us-immigration-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/president-of-wisconsins-largest-mosque-detained-by-us-immigration-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"President of Wisconsin\u2019s largest mosque detained by US immigration agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys for Salah Sarsour, a Palestinian-born US green card holder, say he was targeted for criticizing Israel<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The president of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/wisconsin\">Wisconsin<\/a>\u2019s largest mosque was detained by federal immigration agents, drawing accusations from local officials and religious leaders that the arrest was motivated by his statements against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/israel\">Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Salah Sarsour, a Palestinian-born legal permanent resident of the United States, was taken into custody by nearly a dozen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement\">US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)<\/a> agents on Monday in Milwaukee after he left his home, according to the Islamic Society of Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/02\/wisconsin-mosque-president-detained-us-immigration\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys for Salah Sarsour, a Palestinian-born US green card holder, say he was targeted for criticizing Israel Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The president of Wisconsin\u2019s largest mosque was detained by federal immigration agents, drawing accusations from local officials and religious leaders that the arrest &#8230; <a title=\"President of Wisconsin\u2019s largest mosque detained by US immigration agents\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/president-of-wisconsins-largest-mosque-detained-by-us-immigration-agents\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about President of Wisconsin\u2019s largest mosque detained by US immigration agents\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}