"Give me my husband back!" cried Huy Phan's wife on TikTok. "Like, ICE just came and took my husband from my house."
On April 14, officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Enforcement (ICE) and Removal Operations New Orleans arrested Huy Quoc Phan, a 43-year-old Vietnamese illegal alien, at his residence in Fairhope.
"ICE kidnapped my husband, and I am literally waiting for a ransom note," the wife, @dragonqueen6485, continued. "Like, how much do I need to pay you, Trump, in order to get my freaking husband back?"
"Like, I have two kids, I have no job," she continued. "I lost my job, thanks to y'all letting our jobs go across seas. So, I have no income, and I have two kids, and you took the only income out of my household."
@dragonqueen6485 Give him back release my hisband he lived here since he was 6#fypシ #ice #ICE #immigrationlawyer #helpme #tiktok ♬ original sound - DragonQueen6485
The wife posted the video, which went viral within a few hours. Nearly 850,000 views on TikTok and thousands of shares on Facebook later, social media users decried the U.S. government and blamed President Donald Trump for "disappearing" legal immigrants.
"The world is about to bring their inner crazy out and absolutely unleash it on this administration," one user warned.
"I hope this lady gets her husband back and I hope that being kidnapped hasn't stirred anything up in the survivor of war," another user commented.
The wife has since sold cups on TikTok Live and said she has been criticized.
"People are sabotaging my lives to sell cups. It's just cups, guys," she said in another video. "But people think that because I'm on there, trying to survive and trying to keep my kids from being on the street, that I'm on there and I don't care about my husband."
"If somebody, I swear to God, if somebody comes in my live one more time and tells me I do not love my husband, because I am trying to keep my kids from being on the street, you are f*cking heartless! You are f*cking heartless pigs!" she continued. "You understand me? I'm trying to keep it together, and y'all are trying to destroy a whole family."
"Just give him back and I won't go crazy, alright?" she added. "Because I'm about to sue every f*cking body. I'm about to make sure that everybody pays for this sh*t."
@dragonqueen6485 Free Huy Phan Give my husband back to me.#fypシ #ICE #immigrationlawyer #FreeHuyPhan #fyp ♬ original sound - DragonQueen6485
Phan entered the United States legally as a child in 1991. His family fled Vietnam seeking refuge.
However, on Oct. 26, 2000, he was convicted in DeKalb County, Ga., of voluntary manslaughter, false imprisonment and robbery and sentenced to 17 years in prison, according to ICE.
Court documents show Phan was one of five defendants initially charged with three counts of felony murder, voluntary manslaughter, robbery and false imprisonment, but pleaded guilty to the lesser charges.
In December 2000, Phan was issued a notice to appear in court, which led to his removal from the United States in 2002.
After his release from prison in Georgia in 2015, ICE detained Phan for deportation. However, Vietnam denied issuance of travel documents, and he was released and placed on supervised release until this year, when ICE took him into custody to enforce the judge's final order of removal from 2002.
Phan will remain in ICE custody pending his removal.
"Huy Quoc Phan is a criminal illegal alien and Vietnamese national who has been convicted of voluntary manslaughter, false imprisonment, and robbery and was sentenced to 17 years in prison in 2000," Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin told 1819 News. "He had a final order of removal. ICE New Orleans agents arrested Phan on April 14, and he will remain in custody until he is deported. Under President Trump and Secretary Noem's leadership, ICE is continuing to protect Americans by detaining and removing criminal aliens.
ICE is currently working with countries, including Vietnam, towards the acceptance of their nationals ordered removed from the United States.
1819 News has reached out to the wife for a response.
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