{"id":819247,"date":"2026-08-19T22:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T22:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/819247\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T22:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T22:58:13","slug":"routine-ice-check-in-for-vermont-healthcare-worker-has-supporters-on-pins-and-needles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/819247\/","title":{"rendered":"Routine ICE check-in for Vermont healthcare worker has supporters on pins and needles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ST. ALBANS, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; It was a tense moment at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in St. Albans Wednesday morning as Ugandan asylum seeker Steven Tendo entered the facility for a routine check-in. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Supporters were expecting Tendo to be detained, but he emerged 15 minutes later to a cheering crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tendo is a licensed nursing assistant at UVM Medical Center and a pastor who has been living in Vermont since 2021 under a stay of removal, which had delayed his deportation order. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He is barred from working while he goes through the legal process. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tendo said he has received overwhelming support from the community. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cVermonters have fed me, they have housed me, they have sent me back to school. They\u2019re incredible people,\u201d Tendo said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tendo was given 90 days before his next routine ICE check-in. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. ALBANS, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; It was a tense moment at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[10987,12264,29313,97,252,253,2483,790,347457,347456,27076,34752],"class_list":["post-819247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-asylum","tag-customs","tag-enforcement","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ice","tag-immigration","tag-st-albans","tag-tendo","tag-vermont","tag-wcax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}