{"id":65820,"date":"2026-02-09T13:56:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/irish-man-with-valid-us-work-permit-held-in-ice-detention-for-five-months\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T13:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:56:36","slug":"irish-man-with-valid-us-work-permit-held-in-ice-detention-for-five-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/irish-man-with-valid-us-work-permit-held-in-ice-detention-for-five-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seamus Culleton, who has lived in US for two decades, faces deportation after being arrested on way home from work <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/feb\/09\/donald-trump-bad-bunny-super-bowl-politics-latest-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/feb\/09\/europe-eu-jimmy-lai-ukraine-russia-us-portugal-latest-news-updates\">Europe live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Seamus Culleton was a \u201cmodel immigrant\u201d who had become the victim of a capricious and inept system, said his lawyer, Ogor Winnie Okoye.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/09\/irish-man-seamus-culleton-ice-detention\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seamus Culleton, who has lived in US for two decades, faces deportation after being arrested on way home from work US politics live \u2013 latest updates Europe live \u2013 latest updates An Irish man has spent five months in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and faces deportation despite having a valid work permit and &#8230; <a title=\"Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/irish-man-with-valid-us-work-permit-held-in-ice-detention-for-five-months\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months\">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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65820","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\/65820","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=65820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}