{"id":487203,"date":"2026-06-20T15:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/487203\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T15:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:40:17","slug":"everlee-wihongi-has-been-freed-from-ice-detention-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/487203\/","title":{"rendered":"Everlee Wihongi has been freed from ICE detention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>19 Jun, 2026 09:58 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Everlee Wihongi has been released from US immigration detention.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">New Zealander Everlee Wihongi has been released from immigration detention in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The 37-year-old was detained by ICE while attempting to return to the US on a Green Card &#8211; or Permanent Resident Card &#8211; after a three-week holiday in New Zealand in early April, because of a<br \/>\n         2016 cannabis conviction.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Her lawyer Marc Christopher confirmed that she has been released and is expected to be reunited with her family in the next few hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">More to come &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/community\/606389\/everlee-wihongi-has-been-freed-from-ice-detention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/community\/606389\/everlee-wihongi-has-been-freed-from-ice-detention\">&#8211; RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 19 Jun, 2026 09:58 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1558,20556,207102,123079,71,6871,2027,917,111,43,139,69,13181,9939,9938,207103,35111],"class_list":["post-487203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-been","tag-detention","tag-everlee","tag-freed","tag-from","tag-has","tag-ice","tag-immigration","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-released","tag-states","tag-united","tag-wihongi","tag-zealander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}