AP: “ICE says detained Maine police officer overstayed visa. The chief says he cleared a federal check”

Patrick Whittle for the Associated Press reports that the chief of police in a Maine town has called for an investigation into the arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of one of its officers, who the chief said was federally approved to work in the country in May.

ICE arrested an Old Orchard Beach Police Department reserve officer on July 25.  “ICE said in a . . . statement that [the officer] had legally entered the U.S. in September 2023 and violated the terms of his admission by overstaying his visa. But Old Orchard Beach Police Chief Elise Chard said in her own . . .  statement that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had verified that [the officer] was authorized to work in the U.S. in May of this year.”

KJ