AP · 2026-11-11 22:09 UTC

Peanut the squirrel's former owner has been detained by ICE and could be deported

Daniela Bittner, the former owner of Peanut the squirrel, was arrested by immigration officers in mid-October at a small airport near New York's Pennsylvania border and is held in an immigration jail in Texas, pending possible deportation to Germany. DHS said Bittner was arrested because she "chose to overstay her welcome in defiance of our nation's laws." Her husband, Mark Longo, blamed an immigration paperwork mix-up, called conditions in the lockups "deplorable," and said he will have to shut down their animal sanctuary if she is deported.

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