COLUMBIA — What began as a routine trip home turned into a nightmare for Owen Ramsingh, a longtime Columbia resident, husband and father who was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday.

Ramsingh was returning home from visiting family in the Netherlands and was detained at a Chicago airport. He is now currently being held at an ICE facility in El Paso, Texas, awaiting a hearing before an immigration judge.

Ramsingh holds a green card and obtained it when he was 5 years old, arriving in the United States with his mother from the Netherlands. His green card was set to expire in March, so he renewed it in February before he went to visit his family in the Netherlands in September. His green card was renewed for 10 years, according to documentation obtained by KOMU 8.

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