A South African (SA)-born man, who now works as a police officer in the United States (US) state of Wisconsin, has been detained by federal immigration agents.<\/p>\n
Local broadcaster WBAY<\/em> reports that 21-year-old Carel Aaron Van Der Merwe was arrested at Madison’s airport on Thursday.<\/p>\n His lawyer says he holds valid work authorisation and has a pending asylum application. US authorities allege he overstayed his permitted admission.<\/p>\n According to broadcaster WBAY<\/em>, immigration agents arrested Van Der Merwe while he waited to board a domestic flight.<\/p>\n His lawyer says he entered America legally as a child, remains included in his father’s pending asylum application and has permission to work until 2030.<\/p>\n But Homeland Security told the broadcaster he overstayed his admission, saying work authorisation or a pending application does not confer legal status. Authorities say he remains detained pending removal proceedings. His lawyer plans to seek release on bond.<\/p>\n –SABC–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32839,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-50246","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"According to broadcaster WBAY, immigration agents arrested Van Der Merwe while he waited to board a domestic flight.","published_date":"","news_description":"According to broadcaster WBAY, immigration agents arrested Van Der Merwe while he waited to board a domestic flight.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50248,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50246\/revisions\/50248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=50246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}