“Tiger King” Joe Unique‘s husband, who was already doing time behind bars for immigration crimes, has been deported to Mexico by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, in accordance with a report.
Unique, whose actual title is Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage, is now pleading with President Trump and members of his administration to offer his accomplice a reprieve.
Unique posted an image along with his husband, Jorge Flores Maldonado, on Instagram Saturday with the caption, “They have officially taken him to an ICE detention Center for his hearing to either stay in America or go back to Mexico.”
Maldonado was launched from jail and deported to Mexico simply hours after the immigration listening to, TMZ confirmed Sunday.
The newlyweds had tied the knot just some weeks in the past whereas in a Texas federal lockup, the place Unique, 63, is presently serving a 21-year sentence for plotting to rent a hitman to homicide big-cat arch-rival Carole Baskin and violating federal wildlife legal guidelines.
“@potus @stephenm don’t you think between losing my life’s work. My parents and now this that I’ve suffered enough and it’s time to watch season 2 of Tiger King and see they admitted on world television the committed perjury and let me go,” Unique wrote Saturday, tagging the accounts of the Trump administration and White Home Deputy Chief of Workers Stephen Miller.
Maldonado, a Mexican nationwide, was serving time for immigration points, the fact star beforehand mentioned, in accordance with CBS Information.
He was caught allegedly driving a automobile with six different undocumented immigrants throughout the border, in accordance with federal court docket paperwork obtained by the US Solar.
Unique posted again in October after he introduced his engagement that he was engaged on “getting [Maldonado] asylum or we be leaving America when we both get out.”
In response to at least one social media person wishing him luck in his case attraction, Unique mentioned he has “no problem going to Mexico” along with his new husband if launched.
Unique additionally shared an summary drawing he mentioned was left behind by his husband earlier than he was taken to his ICE listening to and finally deported.
“Guys!! I forgot to show you what Jorge left me to remember him,” he wrote as a caption for an Instagram image of the illustration.
ICE didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The eccentric prisoner gained worldwide fame from the Netflix 2020 docuseries “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” that showcased his work and private life as he sorted unique large cats at his G.W. Zoo in Wynnewood, Oklahoma.
He was arrested in September 2018 in the midst of filming the present after he provided $10,000 to an undercover FBI agent to kill Baskin, in accordance with the feds.
