Ice detains us army staff sergeant's wife at military base amid deployment preparations

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have detained the wife of a US Army staff sergeant at his Louisiana military base just days after their wedding, as he prepares for deployment.

Undocumented wife of soldier arrested under trump administration

Annie Ramos, 22, was taken into custody last Thursday at Fort Polk by ICE agents, despite her husband Matthew Blank's efforts to secure her legal status through marriage. The 23-year-old soldier has served over five years and previously deployed to the Middle East and Europe.

Ramos, a biochemistry student and Sunday school teacher, had been the subject of a deportation order issued in absentia in 2005 when she was an infant after her family missed an immigration court hearing. She applied for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in 2020, but the Trump administration's halt on new applicants prevented her application from being processed.

Blank told the New York Times that he and Ramos had hired a lawyer to begin the process of obtaining legal permanent residency through marriage, with plans for her to move in after the Easter weekend. Instead, she was handcuffed and placed in a military police vehicle at the Fort Polk visitor center, before being held in an