Washington (CNN) A former driver for President Donald Trump's family has been in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for eight months, The New York Times reported Friday.

Zoltan Tamas, a Romanian immigrant who came to the United States legally in 2011 and worked for Trump's golf club in Jupiter, Florida, was arrested in June 2018 by ICE after the agency called him to their office "to discuss his 'inadmissibility'" to the United States following a 2013 trip he took to Romania, according to the Times.

According to the paper, Tamas, a green-card holder, was arrested by the agency after a background check connected to his 2016 application for citizenship "revealed that he had been convicted in absentia of committing insurance fraud in Romania."

The Times said Tamas' lawyer, Mario Urizar, is appealing a judge's decision to deport Tamas "while the case winds through the court." But ICE, the paper said, "has said that he must remain detained because of his crime."

Urizar told CNN Friday that he plans to argue the in absentia conviction is not a fair basis for Tamas' deportation.

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