Oh, Noes, Military Wife Caught Up By ICE!

There’s a whole lot of detail missing from this Associated Press article, which is being repeated all over the Credentialed Media outlets, including the Washington Post, and none of them said “hey, do we have all the details?”

US soldier trying to halt wife’s deportation after she was detained on Louisiana military base

A U.S. Army staff sergeant is trying to halt his wife’s deportation after she was detained inside a Louisiana military base where the couple was planning to live together just days after their wedding.

The effort to remove the soldier’s wife, who was born in Honduras and remained in a federal immigration detention center Monday, has drawn backlash from military family advocates who called the detention demoralizing in a time of war and warned that deporting spouses could undermine recruitment.

Staff Sgt. Matthew Blank said he brought his wife, Annie Ramos, 22, to his base in Fort Polk, Louisiana, last Thursday so that she could begin the process to receive military benefits and take steps toward a green card. The couple married in March.

Well, that was an unforced error

Federal immigration agents detained Ramos as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda, which legal experts say has dispensed with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s practice of leniency toward families of military members.

Something is missing

Ramos’ detention was first reported by The New York Times.

Ramos entered the U.S. in 2005, when she was younger than 2 years old. That same year, her family failed to appear for an immigration hearing, leading a judge to issue a final order of removal, according to DHS.

“She has no legal status to be in this country,” DHS said in an emailed statement. “This administration is not going to ignore the rule of law.”

Let’s head to the NY Times, which has had 8 revisions of their article, and deep down we read

On April 2, the couple and Sergeant Blank’s parents drove from Houston to the base, arriving early for a 2 p.m. appointment. As instructed, the couple checked in at the visitor center, where they presented Ms. Ramos’s birth certificate, Honduran passport, their marriage license and Sergeant Blank’s military ID.

They never made it to the benefits office.

According to Sergeant Blank and his mother, an attendant scrutinized the documents and asked if Ms. Ramos had a visa or a green card. She did not, they explained, noting that their lawyer had prepared a green card application that would be filed any day.

Got that? She’s been here for 20+ years, and during all that time has failed to apply for a green card. She failed to do DACA correctly. She showed up with a Honduran passport….when the hell did she get that? Why would she get that unless she was more interested in being a Honduran? They just showed up to the military base expecting everything to be hunky dory. Did they consider that the immigration system might well investigate if the marriage was legitimate, not an attempt to get legal status? Because Immigration courts do investigate this heavily.

Staff Sergeant Blank should have known all this. If they were really in love the lawyer(s) would have told them she needed to go back to Honduras with the deportation order and then they file the paperwork. It can take a while, but, it usually gets done. I mean, seriously, 20+ years and did nothing. Also

Yeah, that’s a major security risk.