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After 16 days in ICE custody, Steven Tendo is heading back to Vermont
https://vtdigger.org/2026/02/20/after-16-days-in-ice-custody-steven-tendo-is-heading-back-to-vermont/Auditi Guha
The Ugandan minister and health care worker was released from a detention facility in New Hampshire on Friday, according to his lawyer.
Steven Tendo, a refugee from Uganda seeking political asylum in the U.S., speaks with supporters after receiving a letter announcing a year-long stay of his deportation in St. Albans on Tuesday, November 15, 2022. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger
Ugandan minister, health care worker and asylum-seeker Steven Tendo is expected to return home to Vermont on Friday after being detained for 16 days, his lawyer said.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement took Tendo, 41, into custody on Feb. 4 outside the Shelburne health care facility where he works and held him at the Strafford County Department of Corrections facility in Dover, New Hampshire.
Judge Joseph Laplante of the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire ordered Tendo's release during a Friday morning hearing in Concord, as first reported by Seven Days. Laplante sided with an argument from Tendo's complaint that ICE did not follow procedure after his arrest, according to Chris Worth, one of Tendo's attorneys who was in court Friday.
"I think that everyone on the legal team is extremely relieved that Pastor Tendo is back home in Vermont, where he should be with his community," Worth said.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement took Tendo, 41, into custody on Feb. 4 outside the Shelburne health care facility where he works and held him at the Strafford County Department of Corrections facility in Dover, New Hampshire.
Judge Joseph Laplante of the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire ordered Tendo's release during a Friday morning hearing in Concord, as first reported by Seven Days. Laplante sided with an argument from Tendo's complaint that ICE did not follow procedure after his arrest, according to Chris Worth, one of Tendo's attorneys who was in court Friday.
"I think that everyone on the legal team is extremely relieved that Pastor Tendo is back home in Vermont, where he should be with his community," Worth said.
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