ICE releases wife of U.S. Army soldier after month-long detention
Summary
The wife of an active-duty U.S. Army soldier was released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after being detained for a month during an immigration appointment. She was applying for a special program to protect military family members from deportation but was arrested because of a prior deportation order and a conviction related to entering the U.S. illegally.Key Facts
- Deisy Rivera Ortega, wife of Sgt. 1st Class Jose Serrano, was detained by ICE on April 14 in El Paso, Texas.
- Rivera Ortega has lived in the U.S. for about ten years and is the spouse of an active-duty Army soldier and Afghanistan war veteran.
- She was applying for Parole in Place, a program that protects military spouses and parents from deportation.
- ICE arrested her due to a deportation order from 2019 and a federal misdemeanor conviction for illegal entry.
- Rivera Ortega had legal protection under the U.N. Convention Against Torture, preventing deportation to El Salvador but not to a third country.
- She was told she might be deported to a country like Mexico instead of El Salvador.
- Her detention affected her husband’s mental health, who has PTSD and a traumatic brain injury.
- ICE has increasingly detained relatives of service members under President Donald Trump’s administration, aiming for a large deportation campaign.
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