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私の長年の親友でもあり、米国聖公会ニューヨーク教区で奉職されている金キリ(Kyrie Kim）司祭のお嬢さん、コ・ヨンスさんが、現在、米国移民関税執行局（ICE）に逮捕、拘禁されています。
ヨンスさんは、在留資格変更申請(I-539) 審査途中、裁判所を出たところを不意に逮捕され、現在、ニューヨーク地域ICE拘禁施設に収監、面会も不許可となっているとのことです。
金キリ先生は、韓国聖公会の司祭ですが、英語はもちろん、日本語も堪能で、ニューヨーク在住日本人信徒のためのグループ、「メトロポリタン・ジャパニーズ・ミニストリー」（Metropolitan Japanese Ministry: MJM)の牧師も担われており、立教大学、立教学院関係者も大変お世話になっている方です。早期釈放と、ヨンスさん、金キリ司祭を覚えてお祈りください。
日本聖公会中部教区の丁胤植司祭が、韓国語の速報記事を翻訳してくださいました。
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［速報] 20歳の留学生コ・ヨンスさん、ニューヨーク移民裁判所出席後、法廷を出たところで逮捕
Posted by JNCTV | Aug 1, 2025
⚫︎ 2021年、母の金キリ、聖公会司祭と共にR-2VISAで米国入国
⚫︎ 資格変更申請(I-539) 審査途中逮捕
⚫︎ 現在、ニューヨーク地域ICE拘禁施設に収監、保釈及び面会不許可
ニューヨーク滞留中の20歳、韓国人留学生コ・ヨンスさんが移民関税執行局（ICE)によって令状もないまま逮捕され拘禁された中、コさんの釈放と人権保障を促す記者会見が開かれる。
コさんは2021年3月25日, 母の金キリ、聖公会司祭と共にR-2VISAを受け米国へ入国した。その後、2023年、滞留期間が2025年12月までに延長され、2024年8月、Purdue Universityに入学して現在2学年進学を目の前にしている。
ところが急に移民局より3月26日付、滞留期間を取り消すという通報を受けて、7月31日、ニューヨーク移民裁判所でのヒアリングに出席して移民法廷の判事より 、審理日程を8月21日に再調整された直後、法廷から出るところICE要員5名に逮捕された。現在、コさんはニューヨーク地域拘禁施設に収監され、保釈も許可されず面会も出来ない状態である。
これに対して、米国聖公会ニューヨーク教区と宗教間協力センター、ニューヨーク移民者連盟などは、来る8月2日の午前10時、マンハッタン連邦移民局(26 Federal Plaza) の前で記者会見を開いて、コさんの即刻釈放を訴える予定である。記者会見には米国聖公会ニューヨーク教区主教のマシュー・ヘイド（Matthew Heyd）主教も参加する予定である。
朴ドンギュ弁護士は 、「コさんは、資格変更申請書(I-539)を提出した状態であり、まだ審査中であった」と語り、「“Notice To Appear “の書簡を受けて移民法廷に出席して、検事及び判事と協議を経て次の期日を預かって出てきた状況だった。しかし移民局は正式令状も無いままコさんを逮捕拘禁した。それは憲法が保障する適法手順(Due Process)に明白に違反している」と批判した。
主催者側は、「この出来事は単純なVISA問題を超え、人権と法治の問題である」と強調し、「多くの市民の関心と参与をお願いする」と訴えている。
訳：丁胤植
（写真は右がお母さまの金キリ司祭、左が娘さんのコ・ヨンスさん）
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Teresia Kei Kurosawa
キム司祭には韓国にいらした頃、大変お世話になっていました。
ヨンスさんがご不安や怖さの中にありませんように。お二人のお心とお身体が守られますように。
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Koji Shimada
残念ことです。アメリカは政権交代で前政権で法的に許されていたことが急に反故にされて困っている人が沢山居ます。同時にそれと戦い困っている人を庇護する弁護士も多いと聞きます。実情を顧みない極端な政策は政治家の自己満足でしかありません。
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Ryota Kato
先日、米国西海岸で宣教中の、私たちの教派の日本人教役者からも、一時帰国の際に現地のマイノリティやエスニック教会とその信徒の苦境について伺ったところです。とても人ごととは思えません。早期の解放とご本人の望む形での解決を求めて、祈りと連帯を合わせていきます。
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Iwao Onuki
仲間と続けている「Web朝の祈り」で早速祈りの項目に追加してもらいます
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Fumiko Kuwamoto
本当に無茶苦茶すぎますね！！
Hideo Yamanashi
逮捕状のない不当逮捕は許されない。
渕上 マリ子
え〜！
まさか、こんな事有ってはいけない
今のアメリカの状況が不安です解決祈ります
小池喜代子
アメリカって、遵法精神のない国！そんなことで、国としての尊厳、品位が保たれると思っているのか……？最低の国です！！
The Rt. Rev. Matthew Heyd, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New YorkMurad Awawdeh, Executive Director of the New York Immigration Coalition
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Daughter of Korean priest detained by ICE after visa hearing
Published : Aug. 3, 2025 -
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Bishop Matthew Heyd of the Episcopal Diocese of New York speaks at the press conference on Saturday in New York. (Yonhap)A 20-year-old South Korean student at Purdue University and daughter of an Episcopal priest has been detained by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement after attending a routine court hearing over her visa status, according to news reports Sunday.
The Episcopal Diocese of New York and immigrant advocacy groups are calling for the immediate release of Go Yeon-soo, saying she was unfairly detained despite having legal status, and that immigration authorities bypassed proper legal procedures.
Go, a graduate of Scarsdale High School in Westchester County, is the daughter of the Rev. Kim Ky-rie, the first woman ordained in the Seoul Diocese of the Anglican Church of Korea.
According to the family, Go entered the United States in March 2021 on an R-2 visa, a dependent visa for family members of R-1 religious visa holders, following her mother’s relocation. The family said her stay was legally extended in 2023 and that her status remains valid through the end of 2025. However, immigration authorities reportedly interpreted her status differently and deemed her stay unlawful.
On July 31, Go appeared before the New York Immigration Court and was given a continuance for her hearing, which was rescheduled for October. But shortly after exiting the courthouse, she was detained by ICE agents. She is currently being held at the ICE office in Manhattan and is expected to be transferred to a detention facility for immigrants.
The Episcopal Diocese of New York and the New York Immigration Coalition hold a press conference on Saturday in front of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement federal building in New York, demanding the immediate release of Go Yeon-soo. (Yonhap)“Her mother receives regular calls from Yeon-soo, and she’s being held at 26 Federal Plaza, which, as we know, is not a facility with showers, beds or hot meals,” said the Rt. Rev. Matthew Heyd, bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, during a press conference Saturday. “These detentions are not only illegal — they’re immoral.”
The press conference was held outside the ICE office in Manhattan by the diocese and a coalition of immigrant advocacy organizations.
The case comes amid growing concerns over the treatment of immigrants, particularly among the Korean community. Last month, Tae-heung Kim, a 40-year-old Ph.D. student at Texas A&M University, was detained by federal agents at San Francisco International Airport and remains in custody.
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Daughter of priest, 20, is arrested by ICE for overstaying her religious visa for two years
A Purdue University student and the daughter of a pioneering Episcopal priest has been arrested and placed in expedited deportation proceedings after attending what was supposed to be a routine immigration court hearing.
Yeonsoo Go, 20, who arrived in the US from South Korea in 2021 on an R-2 visa, was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on July 31 outside the federal courthouse at Federal Plaza in Manhattan.
The move has ignited fury across faith communities, civil rights groups, and Korean American advocacy organizations.
Go's attorney insists her visa is active and valid through the end of this year, while the Department of Homeland Security says it expired more than two years ago.
'She was with her mother. She was heartbroken. And when she called me at night, later that day, she was breaking down,' said her boyfriend, Leo Chu to Fox 5. 'She was terrified. She didn't know what would happen next.'
Go, a graduate of Scarsdale High School in Westchester County, moved to America when she accompanied her mother, the Rev. Kyrie Kim, a trailblazing Episcopal priest and first woman ordained in the Seoul Diocese of the Anglican Church of Korea, to New York under a dependent visa.
Her attorney and family say her stay was legally extended in 2023 and that she is lawfully enrolled at Purdue University. Her next court date had already been scheduled for October, but ICE agents were waiting outside the courtroom.
According to advocacy groups and church leaders, five plainclothes officers surrounded Go and detained her immediately after the judge adjourned her hearing.
Yeonsoo Go, 20, from South Korea has been arrested and placed in expedited deportation proceedings after attending what was supposed to be a routine immigration court hearing
Go, left, a graduate of Scarsdale High School in Westchester County, had accompanied her mother, the Rev. Kyrie Kim, right, a trailblazing Episcopal priest and first woman ordained in the Seoul Diocese of the Anglican Church of Korea
No warrant was presented at the scene, and she was not given the opportunity to speak further with her attorney before being taken away.
'This is simply an incomprehensible situation,' her mother, Rev. Kim, told Yonhap News Agency.
'I've been active in protecting the rights of Korean immigrants through the New Sanctuary Coalition, but I never imagined that my own family would become a target.'
'She was supposed to return to school,' said boyfriend, Chu. 'Now we don't know what's going to happen.' The family have set up a GoFundMe to help with expenses.
Officials with the Department of Homeland Security offered a starkly different version of events.
'Yeonsoo Go, an illegal alien from South Korea, overstayed her visa that expired more than two years ago,' DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
'President Trump and Secretary Noem are committed to restoring integrity to the visa program and ensuring it is not abused to allow aliens a permanent one-way ticket to remain in the US. ICE arrested her on July 31 and placed her in expedited removal proceedings.'
But her attorney and supporters say that assertion is false.
Go, 20, who arrived in the US from South Korea in 2021 on a religious R-2 visa, was taken into custody by ICE on July 31 outside the federal courthouse at Federal Plaza in Manhattan
No warrant was presented at the scene, and Go was not given the opportunity to speak further with her attorney before being taken away
A vigil was held outside of ICE headquarters at 26 Federal Plaza with faith leaders from all over the metropolitan area joining family members, classmates, neighbors and supporters call for the release of Yeonsoo Go
Vigil participants add flowers, American flags and signs that read 'Free Yeonsoo' to the memorial wall for migrants taken by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from immigration courts at 26 Federal Plaza
'She has a valid visa that expires in December 2025, and she has a pending application for extension,' said a legal representative for Go.
'The judge was satisfied enough to continue the case until October. There was no indication that she was to be taken into custody.'
Since her arrest, Go has been held in an ICE holding facility at 26 Federal Plaza, a building that clergy say is unfit for human confinement.
'Her mother receives regular calls from Yeonsoo, and she's being held at 26 Federal Plaza, which, as we know, is not a facility with showers, beds or hot meals,' said Rt. Rev. Matthew Heyd, bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of New York.
'These detentions are not only illegal - they're immoral.'
Go's mother, devastated and unable to visit her daughter, said ICE told her Yeonsoo may be transferred to a separate detention facility, but refused to disclose when or where.
The incident has triggered an immediate wave of protests and condemnation from across the religious and immigrant rights landscape.
On Saturday, faith leaders, elected officials, and immigration advocates stood shoulder-to-shoulder outside the ICE building in lower Manhattan to demand her release.
Student Yeonsoo Go was detained by ICE just minutes after leaving a routine visa hearing
Further rallys are planned to bring attention to Yeonsoo's case
Yeonsoo Go, a 20-year-old Korean immigrant and daughter of an Episcopal priest who was detained by ICE last week after appearing for her routine hearing at immigration court
'We call for the end of weaponization in our courts,' Bishop Heyd declared to a crowd of supporters and reporters. 'We stand up for a New York and a country that respects the dignity of every person.'
The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) joined the Episcopal Diocese of New York and the Interfaith Center of New York to organize the press conference.
Posters demanding Go's release were plastered on the courthouse fence, alongside flowers and handwritten notes of support from local high school classmates.
'Her fears have come true,' said Gabriella Lopez, a friend of Go's. 'She's been nervous about this, especially given the climate. And now this is happening - to her, to her family. It's terrifying.'
Murad Awawdeh, president and CEO of NYIC, warned others with pending hearings to be vigilant.
'I think it's critically important that anyone who needs to go to an immigration court hearing call the New York State Office of New Americans and their hotline,' Awawdeh said.
'Make a family preparedness plan. If possible, work with a lawyer to set up a virtual hearing.'
Korean American community leaders say the episode is part of a disturbing trend of rising enforcement actions targeting Korean nationals regardless of their legal status.
Rev. Anne Marie Witchger, Rector at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery speaks at a vigil outside of ICE headquarters at 26 Federal Plaza
On Saturday, faith leaders, elected officials, and immigration advocates stood shoulder-to-shoulder outside the ICE building in lower Manhattan to demand her release
Vigil participants add flowers, American flags and signs that read 'Free Yeonsoo' to the memorial wall for migrants taken by Department of Homeland Security
Lee Myung-seok, president of the Korean American Association of Greater New York, called the arrest 'a clear violation of human rights' and vowed to file a formal letter requesting Go's immediate release
Lee Myung-seok, president of the Korean American Association of Greater New York, called the arrest 'a clear violation of human rights' and vowed to file a formal letter requesting Go's immediate release.
South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also stepped in, stating that its diplomatic missions in the U.S. are providing consular support to Go.
'We are engaging in necessary communication with the US side regarding this issue,' a ministry official told The Korea Times.
The case echoes the recent detention of Tae Heung Will Kim, a Korean green card holder and Texas resident who was taken into custody at San Francisco International Airport last month.
Kim, a Ph.D. student, was held at the airport for more than a week before being transferred to an ICE facility in Arizona.
His family has not received information about his condition or location.
As outrage builds, activists are demanding urgent federal oversight and accountability for what they say is a pattern of unjustified enforcement.
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