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Irishman stuck in ICE custody 2K miles from his Boston home for overstaying visa 16 years ago: ‘It’s just torture’
NY Post ^ | 02/11/2026 | Emily Crane

Posted on 02/12/2026 5:04:56 AM PST by Kid Shelleen

An Irishman who overstayed his 90-day tourist visa more than 15 years ago has been held in a Texas immigration detention facility for nearly five months rather than be deported, despite calling it a form of “torture.”

Seamus Culleton, who is married to an American woman, told Irish media that he has a valid US work permit and a pending green card application when he was suddenly picked up by agents in Boston, where he runs a construction company.

He was cuffed and eventually flown more than 2,000 miles from home to a camp facility at Fort Bliss Army base in Texas, where he alleges he’s been locked in the same “filthy” room. ---SNIP---

“He entered the United States in 2009 under the visa waiver program, which allows you to stay in the US for 90 days without a visa. He failed to depart the US,”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; emilycrane; gofigure; illegaltruth; imaginethat; ireland; newyorkpost; ohnoanyway; pedophilemedia; seamusculleton; thatsashame; treasonmmedia; visa

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1 posted on 02/12/2026 5:04:56 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

Deport him, nothing more needs to be said, next case please.


2 posted on 02/12/2026 5:07:14 AM PST by Skwor
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To: Kid Shelleen

‘It’s just torture’

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Imagine how tortured the average US citizen is knowing that his government is largely working against him.


3 posted on 02/12/2026 5:07:53 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

He overstayed his visa. Try that in Ireland. Enjoy the rest of your stay, boyo.


4 posted on 02/12/2026 5:08:26 AM PST by RinaseaofDs (Imagine what we'll know tomorrow.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I thought they were just rounding up brown people.


5 posted on 02/12/2026 5:08:45 AM PST by small farm girl
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To: Kid Shelleen

Gotta be more to this story..


6 posted on 02/12/2026 5:09:43 AM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: Kid Shelleen

We either have laws or we don’t. We either have borders or we don’t.


7 posted on 02/12/2026 5:11:28 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

That mis-leading headline now makes it look like ICE is torturing its detainees.


8 posted on 02/12/2026 5:12:42 AM PST by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: Kid Shelleen

Get this cretin the hell out of the USA.

He came here on a 90 day visa with the explicit purpose to never go back to Ireland. Didn’t want to stand in line behind millions of others who wish to come here LEGALLY!

Let him start a construction business in Ireland, so he can hire illegal alien employees there. /spit


9 posted on 02/12/2026 5:13:23 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Put me on the plane.

Americans spend big money visiting Ireland.


10 posted on 02/12/2026 5:14:01 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Kid Shelleen

FAFO. LOL!


11 posted on 02/12/2026 5:15:28 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Dublin has a housing shortage.

As an EU citizen, he could build things in sunny Spain rather than now chilly & often cloudy Boston.


12 posted on 02/12/2026 5:15:37 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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15 years and a pending green card?
I know govt bureaucracy is slow but this is ridiculous😂😎


13 posted on 02/12/2026 5:16:13 AM PST by blitz128
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To: blitz128

He is a liar. All Irish are.


14 posted on 02/12/2026 5:19:06 AM PST by nwrep
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To: Brian Griffin

“Put me on the plane.”

What I should have wrote was: He can request transport ASAP to Ireland.


15 posted on 02/12/2026 5:19:33 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Kid Shelleen

Not a tear do I drop...


16 posted on 02/12/2026 5:20:55 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: nwrep

Whoa!


17 posted on 02/12/2026 5:21:44 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: blitz128

“””15 years and a pending green card?
I know govt bureaucracy is slow but this is ridiculous😂😎””””””””””””””””””””””””

Yup. So he ignores immigration law until Big T got elected. In April of 2025 this leprechaun decides he better get serious and he started the paperwork he should have done 20 years ago.


18 posted on 02/12/2026 5:21:59 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: blitz128

This is the immigration equivalent of a motorist on a traffic stop saying “I was just on the way to the DMV to get my license renewed”. IOW, 🐮💩.

CC


19 posted on 02/12/2026 5:23:08 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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To: nwrep

Watch it, sasnach!

CC


20 posted on 02/12/2026 5:23:51 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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