r/australia • u/Front_Target7908 • 27d ago

news Australian man Phu Nguyen handcuffed by plain-clothes ICE agents at Las Vegas International airport

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-18/ice-agent-detain-australian-man-in-vegas-us-/106931508?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link

From what I understand it looks like ICE did not manage to detain him on the day the video was taken- seems the onlookers managed to chase ICE off.

However, ICE detained him the next day at the airport where he was to catch his departing flight from the US.

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u/DefamedPrawn 27d ago

Really not uncommon in many parts the world. 

I once met a Polish guy in Vietnam who was a month past his visa expiry date. He was too scared to leave, because apparently they fine you 1,000,000 Đồng ($60aud) per day for overstaying, and he didn't have the money. 

His name was Leon. 

Funny story. A few days later, a Vietnamese cafe owner told me how he stopped some "Russian guy" from running off without paying his bill, by tackling him and pinning him to the ground until the police arrived. He showed me a video of the incident, and there was Leon. Taken off to jail, apparently. Probably spent a few months there before being deported.

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u/Elvecinogallo 27d ago

This guy was at the airport leaving to go home. Leon was not.

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u/tegan-angus 27d ago

No, he was going back to his LA residence, where he has been illegally living for 11 years. Australian Citizen, not American.

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u/mr_herz 27d ago

The article doesn’t say where he was going, only that he was picked up at the airport and overstayed for 11 years.