Overview

• Ward Sakeik, detained since February at the Prairieland Detention Center, reunited with her husband after nearly five months in ICE custody.
• U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade’s June 22 injunction prohibited her removal from the Northern District of Texas as her challenge proceeded.
• ICE officers twice tried to deport Sakeik—first to the Israel border on June 12 and again on June 30—despite her stateless status and lack of a return country.
• Sakeik has lived under an order of supervision since childhood and recently obtained first-stage approval of her marriage-based green card application.
• Department of Homeland Security officials say she was flagged after flying over international waters from the U.S. Virgin Islands, but no further removal attempts have been made.