Tiger King Joe Exotic’s prison husband arrested by ICE in immigration crackdown as Netflix star begs Trump for pardon
JOE Exotic has revealed his husband Jorge Marquez Flores has been taken to an ICE detention Center.
The Tiger King star, Joe Exotic, 62, whose real name is Joseph Allen Maldonado, begged US President Donald Trump to take pity on him, saying that he’s already “suffered enough”.
Exotic posted a picture of himself with his husband on Instagram on Saturday, with the caption: “They have officially taken him to an ICE detention Center for his hearing to either stay in America or go back to Mexico.
“@potus @stephenm don’t you think between losing my life’s work.
“My parents and now this that I’ve suffered enough and it’s time to watch season 2 of Tiger King and see they admitted on world television the committed perjury and let me go?“
The handle @POTUS is the official Instagram account for the President of the United States.
The handle @stephenm belongs to Stephen Miller, who is the White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security advisor.
Joe Exotic met Jorge Marquez Flores while serving time in federal prison.
Flores, 33, was imprisoned in 2024 for unlawfully reentering the US from Mexico after previously being deported, according to federal court documents seen by The US Sun.
He was allegedly driving a car carrying six other undocumented immigrants across the border.
Exotic was convicted in 2019 for a murder-for-hire plot against his longtime rival Carole Baskin.
He is currently serving the fifth year of a 21-year prison sentence.
The wedding took place at the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, where both men are serving time.
Exotic first announced the engagement in October, revealing that the couple had tattooed wedding rings on their fingers as a romantic gesture of commitment, he told Radar outlet at the time.
He added that he hoped their union would help Flores get US citizenship.