Richardson residents and Muslim community ask council to press for release of community leader held by ICE

Dozens of Richardson-area residents and members of the Muslim American Society urged the Richardson City Council during the public-comment period to publicly support the immediate release on bond of longtime community volunteer Marwan Marouf, who was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and is being held at Bluebonnet Detention Center. Speakers said Marouf’s long record of volunteering, youth mentoring and pandemic relief work makes him a trusted local leader and argued his continued detention harms Richardson neighborhoods.

The appeals occupied much of the council’s allotted public‑comment time. Manal Carmi Wade, program director at the Muslim American Society, told the council Marouf helped lead pandemic relief efforts that delivered more than 100,000 hot meals and called his continued detention “a…