The former mayor of a conservative Kansas town was taken into custody by immigration authorities Wednesday after acknowledging last year that he had voted in elections despite not being a US citizen. Joe Ceballos, who was born in Mexico and is a legal permanent US resident, was detained during a meeting at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Wichita, Kansas, according to his attorney, Jess Hoeme. He said Ceballos now fears he could be deported. The 55-year-old resigned as mayor of Coldwater in December while facing state charges over voting as a noncitizen. While seeking citizenship in 2025, Ceballos admitted during an interview that he had voted, not knowing that green card holders donât qualify, Hoeme said. Ceballos was charged with voting illegally but pleaded guilty in April to misdemeanors in a deal with the Kansas attorney general. His case has drawn attention from the Trump administration and inspired supporters in his community, some of whom held signs reading âWe Support Mayor Joeâ and âICE Outâ as Ceballos walked into the federal building in Wichita. âThinking what could happen â itâs just kind of crazy,â Ceballos told reporters. âObviou
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Georgia townâs lawsuit against turning a warehouse into an immigration detention center could have a wide impact, experts say â key US politics stories from 31 May at a glance Social Circle, a small town in Georgia, is complaining that…
View source →By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Photographs by Carol Guzy The screams are a sound Carol Guzy can’t forget. Week after week, she heard them echoing in the hallways outside New York immigration courtrooms as masked federal agents made arrests.…
View source →US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has released the wife of a US Army sergeant and Afghanistan veteran from detention, her lawyer confirmed to the BBC. Deisy Rivera Ortega, who came to the US from El Salvador, was arrested on 14 April…
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