Owen Ramsingh recounts experience at El Paso ICE detainment facility

Owen Ramsingh talked about his detainment at the Camp East Montana ICE detention facility in El Paso, Texas in a Facebook post Thursday morning.

Ramsingh was born in the Netherlands and emigrated to the U.S. as a child. His wife told KOMU 8 he maintained a green card for decades, but after a trip to the Netherlands last fall, he was detained on Sept. 30 at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.

A Department of Homeland Security official cited a prior drug conviction from when Ramsingh was a teenager as the reason for his detainment and justification for his deportation…

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