Actual Housewives stars Mel and Peet Viljoen are spending Easter in US ICE detention centres, 1000’s of kilometres away from one another.
The truth TV couple have been arrested final month for grand retail theft after shoplifting greater than $5 000 price of products from a neighborhood grocery store. Immigration officers subsequently picked them up for overstaying their vacationer visas.
The Viljoens – who’ve additionally been accused of fraud, forgery and corruption – swapped their luxurious residence in South Africa for a brand new life in Miami, Florida.
MEL AND PEET VILJOEN SPEND EASTER BEHIND BARS
In current weeks, Mel and Peet Viljoen have made headlines over their shoplifting arrest and subsequent detention in an ICE facility.
The Actual Housewives couple have been separated after Peet – a disbarred legal professional – was despatched to ICE’s South Florida Detention Facility, nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz”.
The immigration centre has made headlines for its alleged inhumane situations, as revealed by a number of media exposes. Investigations revealed the college’s unsanitary situations, infested with bugs and pests, with immigrants compelled to sleep in “cage-like cells”.
In current weeks, Mel Viljoen was transferred from the Broward Transitional Centre to the Eloy Detention Centre in Arizona, which is over 3 000 km from her husband.
Her new non permanent residence has acquired complaints like medical neglect, mistreatment and harmful and unlivable situations.
The couple will await an ICE investigation to find out the results of overstaying their vacationer or customer visas. They might face the potential for deportation.
OVERSTAYING THEIR WELCOME?
Early final yr, Mel and Peet Viljoen revealed that they’d relocated to the US to start out a brand new chapter. Nevertheless, the couple didn’t disclose that they have been on a vacationer visa, which allows them to stay within the nation for under 6 months at a time.
In keeping with officers, the Actual Housewives {couples} have been meant to depart from the US on 24 November. They are going to now face authorized motion for violating immigration insurance policies.
MEL AND PEET VILJOEN: THIS TIME LAST YEAR
A yr in the past, Mel and Peet Viljoen have been seemingly residing in consolation at their residence on the Woodhill Golf Property in Pretoria.
Mel appeared on the Showmax Roast of Helen Zille panel, which aired in April.
In June, the couple started their new life within the US, which they claimed was to flee “racial discrimination” in South Africa.
