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ICE Detains Army Sergeant’s New Wife at Fort Polk
The couple had begun the process to secure her legal residency, and experts said people with prior deportation orders are usually not detained.
- On Thursday, April 2, ICE agents detained Annie Ramos at Fort Polk, Louisiana, shortly after she arrived with her husband, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Matthew Blank, to process military spouse benefits.
- Ramos, a 22-year-old college student brought to the U.S. as a toddler, was attempting to normalize her immigration status through marriage, a process she and Blank had already initiated with legal counsel.
- Upon reviewing documents at the visitor center, agents handcuffed Ramos and transported her to a detention facility in Basile, Louisiana, despite the family presenting their marriage license and immigration paperwork.
- Facing potential deportation, Ramos remains in detention while her family raised more than $8,000 toward a $12,000 GoFundMe goal to cover legal fees required to fight her case.
- Legal experts argue the detention is "fundamentally harmful to national security," noting that prior to the current administration's policy, individuals with pending immigration applications were not typically detained.
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U.S. soldier's newlywed wife faces deportation after being detained on Louisiana military base
Staff Sgt. Matthew Blank said he brought his wife, Annie Ramos, 22, to his base so that she could begin the process to receive military benefits and take steps toward a green card.
ICE arrests newlywed wife of Army soldier at military base
(ABC) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested the wife of a U.S. Army staff sergeant at the military base where he is stationed just days after the couple married, an attorney representing the family told ABC News. On April 2, Sergeant Matthew Blank, 23, and his wife Annie Ramos, 22, were joined by relatives at Fort Polk, Louisiana, who were there to help register Ramos as a military spouse and get her moved in, Blank’s mother Jen …
ICE arrests newlywed wife of Army soldier at military base just days after they were married
A U.S. Army staff sergeant is trying to halt his wife's deportation after she was detained inside a Louisiana military base where the couple was planning to live together just days after their wedding.The effort to remove the soldier's wife, who was born in Honduras and remained in a federal immigration detention center Monday, has drawn backlash from military family advocates who called the detention demoralizing in a time of war and warned tha…
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Shin Jae-woo = A controversy is brewing after it was revealed that U.S. immigration authorities detained the wife of a newly married U.S. soldier at a military base.
U.S. soldier trying to halt wife’s deportation after she was detained on Louisiana military base
A U.S. army staff sergeant is trying to halt his wife’s deportation after she was detained inside a Louisiana military base where the couple was planning to live together just days after their wedding.
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