A Texas researcher was held at an airport for over a week. Now he faces deportation

San Francisco (AP) – A researcher who flys home from abroad at Texas A & M University has been detained for more than a week. immigration His family and lawyers said on Thursday that the officials at San Francisco International Airport sleep in a chair and live the food sold at the airport.

At a press conference of his lawyer Karl Krooth, Tae Heung, who was a legal residence with a green card, said that Kim Will ”Kim was detained on July 21st. Kim, who went to South Korea to attend the wedding, is deported and is held at an immigration detention facility in Arizona, and Kroothh added that he has not yet spoken to his client.

Customs and border protection said in a statement that any green card holder with drug crimes has violated the legal status and can be detained. His lawyers, Kim in 2011, where the use of entertainment is illegal, he said he was accused of making misdemeanor in Texas.

His lawyers refused to discuss these charges on Thursday. However, a lawyer said that the Washington Post, who first stated that Kim was detained, fulfilled the need for a community service and successfully filed a petition to seal the crime from the public record.

Since he returned to the White House Donald Trump launched an unprecedented immigration executive campaign Forced the boundaries trying to conflict with the executive power and federal judges Lest him. American citizens, legal permanent residents, visa holders and visitors stopped at the airports and detained for days. Some have some deportation for small violations.

40 -year -old Kim spent most of his life in the United States, 5 years old. After his father’s death, after his family helps the baby’s production business, he recently entered a PhD program in Texas A & M and helped to investigate a vaccine for Lyme disease.

His lawyer said that keeping Kim at the airport rejected him the right to process.

“The airport is not a detention facility. The airport is not in the migrant courtroom. Customs and border protection officers are not interrogators, neutral referees,” he said.

Krooth said that his client was carried between two small rooms during the day at the airport.

Krooth was called secondary examination at least twice a day from an area where there is no window, Kro Krooth said.

Di He moved to another room he slept in a chair at night, Krooth Krooth said. An airport spokesman said in an e -mail that “CBP was not informed when a passenger rejected the entrance to a passenger ve and the investigation to the federal authorities.

His lawyers were not allowed at the airport when they were at the airport, and only one phone call and periodic texts were given with his brother. Krooth said that since he was transferred to Arizona, he was not communicating with who.

Kim’s mother, Jehoon “Sharon, Lee, said journalists had a asthma of his son through a translator on Thursday and that he was concerned that he would take appropriate medical care in custody.

Lee was very old to obtain Kim’s automatic citizenship when he and his husband entered the US in the 1980s on a business visa in the 1980s.

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Weber reported from Los Angeles.