{"id":81189,"date":"2026-02-21T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/us-lawmakers-seek-release-of-double-amputee-from-georgia-ice-detention\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T20:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T15:00:08","slug":"us-lawmakers-seek-release-of-double-amputee-from-georgia-ice-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/us-lawmakers-seek-release-of-double-amputee-from-georgia-ice-detention\/","title":{"rendered":"US lawmakers seek release of double amputee from Georgia ICE detention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ce89aee945680070d6de8cc1446955b081afaaae\/157_0_5001_4002\/master\/5001.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=00bba29a51ba98684f99bd796f492a95\" alt=\"US lawmakers seek release of double amputee from Georgia ICE detention\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">N Shorts<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">US lawmakers seek release of double amputee from Georgia ICE detention<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Congress members write to Kristi Noem to express \u2018grave concern\u2019 over detention of Georgia barber Rodney TaylorRepresentative Pramila Jayapal and 20 members of Congress are seeking the release of Rodney Taylor from Stewart detention center in Georgia, several weeks after the one-year anniversary of when agents seized the double amputee outside his suburban home in Loganville, about 40 miles north-east of Atlanta.The representatives sent a two-page letter on 17 February to Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, and Todd Lyons, the acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), drawing extensively from the Guardian\u2019s reporting and quoting several stories in detail with \u201cgrave concern\u201d due to Taylor\u2019s \u201cextreme hardship in detention and [because] his health is continuing to deteriorate\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/21\/pramila-jayapal-ice-double-amputee-georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts US lawmakers seek release of double amputee from Georgia ICE detention Congress members write to Kristi Noem to express \u2018grave concern\u2019 over detention of Georgia barber Rodney TaylorRepresentative Pramila Jayapal and 20 members of Congress are seeking the release of Rodney Taylor from Stewart detention center in Georgia, several weeks after the one-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":81190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}