BREAKING🚨 An Army staff sergeant brought his new wife onto his military base to register her as his spouse — and ICE took her away.
Matthew Blank and Annie Ramos had been married for just TWO DAYS.
Matthew, 23, had served in the Army for more than five years and deployed overseas. Annie, 22, was a biochemistry student and Sunday school teacher who had lived in the United States since she was a toddler.
The newlyweds drove from Houston to Fort Polk in Louisiana with Matthew’s parents. They were there to get Annie her military ID, activate her benefits as an Army spouse and start moving her onto the base with her husband.
They signed in at the visitor center and handed over exactly what they had been told to bring: Matthew’s military ID, their marriage license and Annie’s Honduran passport.
They expected to be sent to the benefits office.
Instead, ICE agents arrived.
Matthew watched his new wife get put in handcuffs and taken away to an immigration detention center as their family cried.
“She got ripped away from me,” he said.
Annie had been brought to the United States before she was two years old. Her immigration problem traced all the way back to a hearing her family missed when she was about 20 months old, resulting in a removal order issued while she was still a baby.
She had no criminal record and had already tried to obtain legal status through DACA. She and Matthew were also working with an immigration lawyer as they pursued legal status through their marriage.
The Trump administration had also eliminated a policy that previously told immigration officials to consider a close family member’s military service as a significant reason for leniency.
Five days after she was taken from the base, ICE released Annie.
She came home to Matthew wearing a GPS monitor, while the government continued removal proceedings against her.
“All I have ever wanted is to live with dignity in the country I have called home since I was a baby,” Annie said after her release.
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