Overview
- An immigration judge ordered Daniel Ogama Adongo removed on March 23, 2026, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement carried out the deportation on June 20, 2026, with the agency publicly confirming the action in late July 2026.
- ICE’s Chicago field office described Adongo as a public-safety threat and said recent criminal charges against him are covered by the Laken Riley Act, a 2025 law that requires detention without bond for certain immigrant offenders.
- Federal and state records show Adongo overstayed a visa that expired in 2016 and accumulated multiple arrests in Indiana over nine years, including a 2020 conviction for property damage with a 364-day sentence.
- Adongo played briefly for the Indianapolis Colts after signing in 2013 and is reported as the first Kenyan to reach the NFL; his football career effectively ended after police responded to a 2015 incident at his Indianapolis residence.
- Family members and social-service records say Adongo has mental-health problems that they link to a possible brain injury from his sports career, and they have sought medical evaluations as he faced criminal and immigration proceedings.