NEW YORK.- American Immigration agents ended the plans of some newlyweds, an American soldier and his wifewhen They were carrying out the procedures so that she could move in with him.
Annie Ramos, a 22-year-old young woman biochemistry university student and she had just married him Sergeant Matthew Blank, 23, when last weekend they were separated by immigration agents when They were trying to complete the paperwork that would allow her to move to the base.according to the newspaper The New York Times.
Blank, who has been at the Armyis assigned to a brigade in Fort Polk, Louisianawho 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 y activate your benefits as a military spouse. He was going to move after Easter weekend. Instead, “the soldier told the Times.
Before they got married at the end of 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 “.
Donald Trump’s aggressive policies
The newspaper highlights that according to experts, immigrants with a When they marry a citizen – often issued when they were children – they are not usually detained and can regularize their immigration status.
However, Annie Ramos is now in the Basile detention center in Louisiana with other women who will be deported, after base personnel called the Department of Homeland Security I didn’t have a residence card.
When Annie Ramos was 22 months old in absentia when his family did not show up for an immigration court hearing.
According to the immigration lawyer Margaret Stockretired Army Reserve lieutenant colonel and author of the book Ramos would not have been arrested if it had not been for the aggressive policy of arrests and deportations promoted by the Administration of President Donald Trump.
Stock also told the newspaper that prior to 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 indicated that Ramos was arrested after 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,” she told the newspaper in a call from the detention center, where her husband went on Saturday with the form to request a green card that Ramos must sign, but was not allowed to enter any documents.
Military wife detained by ICE
Annie’s case has not been the only one, just on Monday Stephanie Kenny-Velasquez was released, after the fight of her husband, an armed forces pilot with whom she had married two days before being arrested.
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