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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent

Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months

Seamus Culleton with his wife at an American football game
Seamus Culleton with his wife, Tiffany Smyth, a US citizen. Photograph: Irish Times

An Irish man has spent five months in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and faces deportation despite having a valid work permit and no criminal record.

Seamus Culleton was a “model immigrant” who had become the victim of a capricious and inept system, said his lawyer, Ogor Winnie Okoye.

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