ICE arrests Southwest Airlines flight attendant in Nashville for overstaying visa since 2021

A Southwest Airlines formation attendant who allegedly overstayed his visa was arrested by national migration authorities earlier this period portion astatine work, officials said.

Lorenzo Thompson, a Jamaican citizen, was arrested connected July 14 successful Nashville, Tennessee, according to section reports.

Thompson archetypal entered the United States connected April 17, 2021, connected a visa that expired connected Oct. 16, 2021, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told Fox News.

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Interior of rider airplane, Boeing 737-MAX 8 flying for Southwest Airlines. (iStock)

"Against our nation’s laws, helium overstayed his visa and failed to depart. He volition stay successful ICE custody pending his migration proceedings," an ICE spokesperson said.

The bureau noted that amerciable immigrants are offered $2,600 and a escaped formation to self-deport from the U.S.

"We promote each idiosyncratic present illegally to instrumentality vantage of this connection and reserve the accidental to travel backmost to the U.S. the close ineligible mode to unrecorded the American dream," the bureau said. "If not, you volition beryllium arrested and deported without a accidental to return."

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A Southwest Airlines 737 comes successful for landing astatine Portland International Airport. A Southwest formation attendant was arrested past week for allegedly overstaying his visa. (iStock)

TWU Local 556, the national that represents Southwest Airlines formation attendants, besides confirmed the arrest.

"Every Member deserves to beryllium treated with dignity and respect, and we are committed to ensuring this Member and their household cognize they are not unsocial during this hard time," the national wrote connected Facebook.

The Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) said Thompson was moving toward obtaining U.S. citizenship.

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"He had a valid enactment visa and was a dedicated formation attendant, touching countless lives with his kindness," the radical wrote connected societal media.

An online crowdfunding leafage launched to screen Thompson's ineligible bills said helium near Jamaica "seeking information from life-threatening abuse."

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are contiguous arsenic passengers hold successful enactment astatine a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint aft hundreds of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were ordered to deploy to airports to assistance capable TSA staffing gaps, astatine Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport successful Atlanta, March 23, 2026. (REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer)

"Since arriving, helium has worked tirelessly to physique a unchangeable life, pursuing each ineligible measurement toward citizenship," the leafage states. "He has nary transgression record. No parking tickets. He holds a valid enactment visa, has a pending asylum case, and is simply a dedicated formation attendant for a beloved airline."

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The leafage described him arsenic "honest, caring, and loyal, ever acceptable to lend a manus without expecting thing back."

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the hose for comment.