Connor Read Ice Detention began after ICE arrested Connor Read during a green card interview in Tampa on 3 June. He was separated from Jaelin and their three-year-old twin sons, Ryder and Ozzie, and later moved through detention under threat of deportation.
The case now turns on an appeal against a final removal order that ICE says dates to January 2011. Read has already spent more than a month and a half in custody, including eight days in a shared cell at Pinellas county jail before being flown to Louisiana.
Tampa interview and arrest
Read, a British-born man who has lived in the United States since he was nine, went to Tampa for a green card interview and left in custody. ICE said the arrest took place on 3 June 2026 in Tampa, Florida. Read says, "I’m being treated like a murderer."
The separation was immediate. Jaelin and the twin boys were left without him, while Read was first taken to Pinellas county jail in Florida. After eight days in a shared cell, he was flown to an ICE detention centre in Louisiana.
ICE and Read’s record
ICE described Connor Michael Read as "a criminal illegal alien of the United Kingdom" and said his criminal history includes convictions for possession of narcotic equipment, possession of liquor and resisting an officer. ICE also said he entered the United States on 21 November 2007 through Orlando international airport as a non-immigrant with an F-2 visa, and that his status depended on his parent’s status as a student.
ICE said a final order of removal was issued by an Orlando, Florida immigration judge from January 2011, after Read was placed into removal proceedings following a violation of visa terms. The family later tried to regularize his status after Read married Jaelin, but the arrest interrupted that process and left the removal order at the center of the case.
Jaelin, Ryder and Ozzie
Read’s family story runs alongside the immigration file. He was granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status at age 16, later could not renew that status at age 22 because of a narcotic charge, and met Jaelin on a dating app in 2020 before marrying her. Their sons are Ryder and Ozzie.
That family context matters because Read has already spent more than a month and a half in detention while the appeal moves forward. The appeal could take up to six months, leaving Read in Louisiana as the removal order remains the immediate hurdle.
Louisiana detention and appeal
The practical next step is the appeal itself. If Read succeeds, the removal order could be delayed or undone; if he does not, deportation can proceed under the order ICE says was issued in January 2011. ICE says nearly 70% of its arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the US, placing Read inside the enforcement frame the agency says it is using under President Trump and homeland security secretary Mullin.
For Read, the case now sits between a detention centre in Louisiana and an immigration appeal that may take up to six months to resolve, with Jaelin and the boys waiting on the other side of that decision.
