ICE Agents Detain Newlywed Spouse of Soldier Training to Deploy
The New York Times • • general
Key Points:
- A U.S. Army staff sergeant and his wife arrived at his Louisiana base to start their life together as newlyweds, intending for her to move into his on-base home.
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained the sergeant's wife, an undocumented Honduran immigrant brought to the U.S. as a toddler, shortly after their arrival.
- She was placed in a detention facility with hundreds of other women facing deportation under the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
- The detention occurred just days after the couple, Annie Ramos and Matthew Blank, celebrated their marriage; Blank is assigned to a brigade at Fort Polk preparing for deployment.
