Overview
- The stay follows a Petition for Review and emergency motion filed by BOS Legal in the First Circuit, which also ordered the government to submit a response in the coming days.
- U.S. Homeland Security officials state Culleton overstayed a 90-day visa-waiver entry in 2009 and that an immigration judge issued a final removal order on September 10, 2025.
- Culleton has been held for nearly five months at an ICE facility in El Paso after his September 2025 arrest in Massachusetts.
- His representatives say he is married to a U.S. citizen, had advanced a marriage-based green card application, and holds a work permit and Massachusetts driver’s license, which DHS says do not confer lawful status.
- Culleton has described crowded, unsanitary tent conditions at the facility, and Irish records report a 2009 bench warrant on separate criminal charges in Ireland.