The keys
nuevo
Generated with AI
nuevo
Generated with AI
And American soldier and his wife They were preparing to start their life as newlyweds, but their plans were cut short when several Immigration agents burst into the military base in Louisiana, where the couple carried out the procedures so that she could move in with him, and They detained the young woman, 22 years old, who now faces deportation.
Annie Ramos, biochemistry university student no criminal record, She came from Honduras to the United States as a child and just a few days ago she married the sargento Matthew Blank, 23 years old.
However, last weekend they were separated by ICE agents when they were signing the last of the procedures that would allow her to move to the base, according to the newspaper this Tuesday. The New York Times.
“They have taken her away from me”
Blank, who has been in the Army for more than five years, is assigned to a brigade in Fort Polk, Louisiana, which He will begin training at the end of the month ahead of his deployment.
“Our plan was to drive there, take her to the office to get her military ID and activate her military spouse benefits. He was going to move after Easter weekend. Instead, they took it from me.”the soldier said to the Times.
Before they married in late March in Houston, Texas, where she grew up, the couple had hired a lawyer to begin the process that would grant Ramos her legal residency, known as a “green card.”
El diario destaca que según expertos, inmigrantes con una orden de deportación al momento de casarse con un ciudadano, -a menudo emitida cuando eran niños- no suelen ser detenidos y pueden regularizar su estatus migratorio.
Deportation order
However, Ramos is now in the Basile detention center in Louisiana with other women who will be deportedafter base personnel called the Department of Homeland Security after learning that he did not have a green card.
When Ramos I was 22 months old A deportation order was issued in absentia when his family failed to appear for an immigration court hearing.
According to the immigration lawyer Margaret Stockretired Army Reserve lieutenant colonel and author of the book Immigration law and the armed forces, Ramos She would not have been detained if it had not been for the aggressive policy of arrests and deportations promoted by the Trump Administration.
Stock also revealed to the newspaper that before Trump’s immigration policy, the military would have allowed Ramos to obtain his military ID and would have reminded him to present his immigration documents.
The Department of Homeland Security has explained that the young Annie Ramos was arrested while trying to enter a military base and recalled that she does not have legal status to be in the United States and that there is a deportation order.
“I grew up here like any American.This is all I know. My husband and my family are here,” the young woman told The New York Times.in a call from the detention center where she is located and where her husband went this weekend with the form to request the residence card that Ramos must sign, however, they did not allow him to enter any document into the center.
Leave a Reply