CNN · 2026-11-13 19:35 UTC

ICE detains Peanut the squirrel's owner

Daniela Bittner, whose couple once kept the pet squirrel Peanut, was arrested by immigration officers in mid-October at a small airport near New York's border with Pennsylvania. DHS said she "chose to overstay her welcome in defiance of our nation's laws"; she is now held in Texas pending possible deportation to Germany. Her husband Mark Longo calls conditions in the lockups "deplorable," blames a paperwork mix-up, and says he will have to shut down their animal sanctuary if she is deported.

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