ICE detains Wisconsin state trooper with pending asylum case at airport

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NBC News, Raw Story and ABC News report that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained Carel Aaron Van Der Merwe, a 21-year-old Wisconsin state trooper, as he waited to board a domestic flight on Thursday. The outlets cite a statement from his attorneys, who say he told officers he had a work permit and a pending asylum application. Homeland Security said ICE arrested him during a targeted enforcement operation at Dane County Regional Airport and that work authorization or a pending application does not confer legal status. ICE records show he is held at a detention facility in Juneau, Wisconsin. His lawyers say he came to the U.S. from South Africa as a child and faces deportation. Rep. Derrick Van Orden said Friday that he would be released immediately after calling Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, Raw Story reports.

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Carel Aaron Van Der Merwe, a 21-year-old Wisconsin state trooper, was detained by ICE while waiting to board a domestic flight on Thursday, according to his attorneys.
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Raw Story
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His attorneys say he told ICE officers he had a valid work permit and a pending asylum application.
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Raw Story
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NBC News, ABC News
Homeland Security said ICE arrested him during a targeted enforcement operation and that work authorization or a pending application does not confer legal status.
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NBC News, ABC News
ICE records show he is being held at a detention facility in Juneau, Wisconsin.
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NBC News, ABC News
His attorneys say he faces deportation to South Africa, where he was born.
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Raw Story
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ABC News
Rep. Derrick Van Orden said Friday that Van Der Merwe would be released immediately after he called Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.
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Left-side outlets report the detention of trooper Carel Aaron Van Der Merwe at a Wisconsin airport as an attorney-sourced account, with Raw Story casting it as Trump’s ICE shackling him.

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The three left-side outlets lead with the detention itself; Raw Story, the far-left outlet, names Trump’s ICE and frames the arrest as shackling a trooper, while NBC and ABC use neutral wording.
Wisconsin state trooper detained by ICE
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Trump’s ICE shackled Wisconsin trooper in ‘despicable’ airport arrest: ‘They did not care’
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Trooper’s work permit and pending asylum case
Handcuffs and shackles during detention
Risk of deportation to South Africa

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ICE arrests Wisconsin state patrol trooper with pending asylum case at airport, attorneys say
The 21-year-old came to the country legally as a child from South Africa and is included in his father’s asylum application, according to attorneys.
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Raw StoryFar Left
Trump’s ICE shackled Wisconsin trooper in ‘Sensational language“despicable”It is the attorney’s own strong judgement of the arrest, placed in the headline as a quoted word rather than stated as a fact.More neutral: harshThese are Marc Christopher’s words. The outlet is reporting them.Disagree with this highlight?’ airport arrest: ‘They did not care’
A Wisconsin state trooper says President Donald Trump’s immigration agents put him in handcuffs and shackles as he waited to board a domestic flight Thursday, even after he told them he had a work permit and a pending asylum application, ABC News reported . On Friday, Rep. …
4 hr agoRead at Raw Story (opens in a new tab)
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Wisconsin state trooper detained by ICE
Carel Aaron Van Der Merwe, 21, was detained as he was waiting to board a flight.
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ABC News, Nov 6, 3:11 PM EST
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Raw StoryFar LeftNov 6, 3:47 PM EST
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ICE detains Wisconsin state trooper with pending asylum case at airport

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