Joyce Basele, a 64-year-old nursing assistant from Kenya who entered the U.S. legally in 2005, was detained by ICE on June 18, 2026, during a routine check-in at a Houston ICE field office. For 14 years, Basele had complied with required immigration check-ins while under an order of supervision with a final removal order in place. She has no criminal history, pays taxes, works as a certified nursing assistant caring for children and elderly adults, and has a U.S.-citizen daughter whose petition to sponsor her mother was approved. Her attorney secured a stay of deportation to keep her in the country while a humanitarian petition is pending, but ICE has refused to release her from custody despite stating she will not be deported. Basele remains detained at a CoreCivic facility and spent her 64th birthday in detention on July 14, 2026.