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Committee member: ICE has deported spouses of active-duty service members
Summary
During opening remarks, a committee member said ICE has detained and deported spouses and relatives of active-duty service members and recounted a case of a wife detained outside a Walmart and another involving a sailor's father detained while the sailor was deployed on USS Abraham Lincoln.
A Committee member told the Judiciary hearing that ICE has been detaining and deporting spouses and relatives of active-duty U.S. service members, saying the practice has affected military families and citing multiple examples. "ICE has decided to deport the spouses of US soldiers and indeed entire American military families," the committee member said, and described a recent case in which a wife of an active-duty sergeant was deported after being detained outside a Walmart in front of her six-year-old daughter.
The speaker also described an instance in which the immigrant father of a sailor serving aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln was detained while his son was deployed for nine months. The committee member said the father's release followed a "massive community outcry" and used these anecdotes to argue that current enforcement practices do not adequately account for military service and family circumstances.
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