COLORADO SPRINGS (KXRM) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 11 Iranian nationals who were allegedly in the country while undocumented, including two in Colorado Springs.

According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, one of the men arrested in Colorado Springs had been ordered to leave the country in January 1987.

DHS said on June 22, ICE officials arrested Mahmoud Shafiei and Mehrdad Mehdipour — two Iranian nationals in the U.S. without documentation — who were living together. Immigration officials first encountered Shafiei in Seattle, Washington, in January 1981. A judge ordered him removed in January 1987.

According to DHS, his criminal history includes state and federal convictions for drug crimes and arrests for assault and child abuse.

Mehdipour was encountered by U.S. Border Patrol in June 2023 near Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Both men are in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.