Torben Søndergaard Deported From US After 1 Year in Jail: One year after being taken into custody at the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Baker County Facility in Macclenny, Florida, Evangelist Torben Søndergaard the founder of The Last Reformation was deported from the US.
The founder of the Worldwide movement that seeks to return the Book of Acts was taken into custody on June 30 last year in Florida by agents from the Joint Terrorism Task Force, while awaiting a decision on an asylum application with the U.S. government. He was told he was being arrested for gun smuggling, even though he was never charged with that. He was accused of overstaying his visa.
But Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), says Søndergaard “has been persecuted by this administration and targeted, we believe, because he is an evangelical Christian minister.”
However, in a Thursday statement shared by Søndergaard’s legal team on his Facebook page, it was announced that “Torben was deported from the United States in the last 24 hours.”
“He was escorted by two US Immigration officers all way to Denmark, as per standard protocol. The officers treated him with dignity and respect. Upon arriving in Denmark, he was subject to normal passport control and was allowed to immediately turn around and fly to another country. He is now FREE and is safely reunited with his family,” the statement read,
“Now comes a time of much-needed rest and healing, and gratefulness to God that his painful experience of being detained is now over. Torben has requested privacy and will not be online or responding to calls and emails for the time being.”
“Please continue to pray for Torben’s pending Asylum petition in the US federal court. If it is granted, he will be able to return to the US immediately with his family. Lastly, we are planning to announce a press conference to address the many questions and testimonies related to this past year,” it added.
Søndergaard and his family fled Denmark in 2019, fearing persecution and arrest following a harassment campaign by the government and media.
Earlier this month, he wrote on his Facebook page, “It could also happen that I will be deported now, and then after I am deported, and am back to Europe, I could actually win my case and be able to come back to America. But it needs a miracle. And if I lose, it looks like it is, ‘Goodbye with America,’ for me.”