ICE Agents Detain Newlywed Spouse of Soldier Training to Deploy….

Things like this show’s the contempt ICE and Stepthen Miller have for the American military, Migrants and just plain human compassion….

It IS one of the reasons Democrats in Congress want Miller and ICE/CBP limited from such actions….

 

The 22-year-old wife of an Army staff sergeant came to the U.S. as a toddler. She was taken from a military base where the couple planned to live.

A U.S. Army staff sergeant and his wife arrived at his base in Louisiana last week, expecting to begin their life together as newlyweds.

The couple checked in at the visitor center, identification in hand, ready to complete the steps that would allow her to move into his home on the base.

Within hours, that plan had unraveled.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered the base and detained his wife, an undocumented Honduran immigrant who was brought to the U.S. as a toddler. By nightfall, she was in a detention facility with hundreds of women facing deportation as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

The detention came just days after Annie Ramos, 22, a college student with no criminal record, and Matthew Blank, 23, celebrated their marriage with family and friends. Sergeant Blank, who enlisted more than five years ago, is assigned to a brigade at Fort Polk, La. that is set to begin training at the end of the month for deployment…..

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When U.S. citizens marry undocumented immigrants, their spouses become eligible for legal permanent residency through marriage, and they can apply for citizenship three years after receiving their green card.

Even those with a prior deportation order, often issued when they were children, are not typically detained and are able to adjust their immigration status, experts said.

Before they were married, Ms. Ramos and Sergeant Blank had hired a lawyer to begin that process.

“I knew she didn’t have status,” he said. “We were doing everything the right way.”

Or so they thought.

Ms. Ramos had been ordered deported in absentia in 2005, when she was 22 months old, after her family failed to appear at a hearing in immigration court, a circumstance that was “very common, “ according to Margaret Stock, who wrote a book called “Immigration Law and the Military.”

“Prior to the Trump administration creating a mass deportation policy, somebody like her would not have been detained,’’ said Ms. Stock, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve who practices immigration law and who has handled many similar cases…..

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This IS NOT the way Miller & Co. are gonna stay off the media radar as Trump wants….