{"id":116380,"date":"2025-08-03T19:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/116380\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T19:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:44:11","slug":"ny-high-school-grad-detained-by-ice-for-visa-that-expired-over-2-years-ago-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/116380\/","title":{"rendered":"NY high school grad detained by ICE for &#8216;visa that expired over 2 years ago,&#8217; officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DE3447F405206C3416D0F439B5202172.jpg\" alt=\"Rally for 20-year-old woman detain by ICE\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-57dc2675=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong> &#8211; A 20-year-old woman showed up to immigration court last week for what her lawyer says was a routine immigration hearing. Instead, she was detained by ICE, sparking an outcry from her community.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Yeonsoo Go came to the United States from South Korea four years ago on a religious visa. She arrived with her mom, who is now a priest at an Episcopal priest.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Go&#8217;s visa is still in good standing, set to expire in December, according to her attorney, who says everything went well in court on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">She says the judge scheduled Go&#8217;s next court appearance for October, but the 20-year-old was detained by ICE agents when she walked out of the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Go also reportedly has an application pending for a renewal of her visa.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Homeland Security says Go, Scarsdale High School graduate, was in the country on an expired visa.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">&#8220;Yeonsoo Go, an illegal alien from South Korea, overstayed her visa that expired more than two years ago,&#8221; Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to FOX 5 NY on Sunday. &#8220;President Trump and Secretary Noem are committed to restoring integrity to the visa program and ensuring it is not abused to allow aliens a permanent one-way ticket to remain in the U.S. ICE arrested her on July 31 and placed her in expedited removal proceedings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The other side:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Faith leaders, elected officials, community members and friends gathered outside immigration court to demand the release of the 20-year-old.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">&#8220;We call for the end of weaponization in our courts,&#8221; said Rt. Rev. Matthew Heyd, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. &#8220;We stand up for a New York and a country that respects the dignity of every person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">They say they can&#8217;t get in touch with her, and fear she could be moved to another facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information from this article was sourced from reporting by FOX 5 NY and Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/immigration\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Immigration<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8211; A 20-year-old woman showed up to immigration court last week for what her lawyer says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,409,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-116380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-immigration","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114966551884962569","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}