UNITED STATE Migration and also Traditions Enforcement arrested rapper 21 Savage very early Sunday morning, claiming that he is really from the United Kingdom as well as overstayed his visa, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has actually discovered.
21 Savage, whose actual name is Sha Yaa Container Abraham-Joseph, was nabbed in a “targeted operation” in metro Atlanta, ICE representative Bryan Cox stated.
Abraham-Joseph, 26, has actually asserted to be from Atlanta as well as has long been taken into consideration a local act. Just last fall, he offered complimentary school materials to more than 2,500 DeKalb Area school students.
Cox, nevertheless, stated Abraham-Joseph is an “unlawfully present United Kingdom nationwide” that involved the UNITED STATE on a visa in July 2005. His visa ended a year later on, Cox said.
He was additionally convicted of felony drug charges in 2014 in Fulton County, ICE claimed.
Abraham-Joseph has actually been placed in “elimination procedures before the government immigration courts,” Cox said.
An ICE authorities informed the AJC that when Abraham-Joseph was apprehended in 2014, ICE was not familiar with his migration status. They just discovered later that he is presumably from the U.K
The official said the early-morning arrest originated from a website traffic drop in DeKalb Region throughout which three other individuals who were with him were detained by DeKalb police.
The AJC has actually connected to DeKalb police for information on that case.
He performed in Atlanta as lately as Thursday in the Super Dish Songs Fest at State Farm Arena.
He jumped into the rap game with his debut mixtape “The Slaughter Tape” in 2015. His newest album, “I Am > I Was,” hit No. 1 on the Signboard 200 album graph.