The wife of a United States Army staff sergeant was released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody yesterday, but still faces removal proceedings after being detained inside a Louisiana military base last week.
Matthew Blank, a 23-year-old who's been enlisted for five years, and Annie Ramos, a 22-year-old undocumented immigrant who entered the country when she was a toddler, married in March, according to The New York Times. The newlywed couple planned to live together in Fort Polk, Louisiana, before training began at the end of the month for deployment, Blank told the Times. But when they arrived on the military base on April 2 to begin the process of Ramos' acquiring a military ID, military spouse benefits, and ultimately a green card, "instead," Blank said, "she got ripped away from me."
