Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father of four, was detained by ICE in March during a naturalization appointment in Memphis owing to a missing immigration document from 2015. Eriksen, a Danish immigrant with no criminal background, failed to complete Form I-751 following his wife’s stillbirth. Despite years of compliance with immigration rules and tax payments, he now fears deportation to Denmark.
ICE transported Eriksen to a private jail facility in Louisiana run by the Trump-supporting GEO Group. He remains in jail with almost 100 others, the majority of whom are non-criminal detainees, as mass detentions increase under Donald Trump’s second term.
His pregnant wife Savannah, who is now raising their children alone, claims ICE never allowed them to say goodbye. “This administration doesn’t care if it’s legal or not,” stated immigration lawyer Nathalia Rocha Dickson. A preliminary hearing is set for May 27, but the family’s future is unknown.
