The wife of an Irish man being held in a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in El Paso, Texas, has said she wants her husband "home where he belongs".

Tiffany Smith was speaking at a press conference when she described the experience as "overwhelming".

Her husband Seamus Culleton was detained by ICE in September 2025, while he was in the process of applying for his green card.

"I want him safe. Seamus is a good man, he doesn't deserve what is going on. It's heartbreaking, it's absolutely heartbreaking".

"I don't know how I've gone on these past five months to be honest. It's been awful. I don't wish this upon anybody." she added.