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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Manuel Demegillo

Can the Wife of a US Soldier Be Deported? Deisy Rivera Ortega Faces Deportation Despite Work Permit

Now facing deportation to Mexico—a country Deisy Rivera Ortega has no ties to—her arrest has left the veteran soldier questioning his loyalty to a system that he claims is now ‘out of control.’ (Credit: YouTube Screenshot / CBS TEXAS)

ICE detained the wife of an Army sergeant during an immigration appointment despite her holding a valid work permit.

Deisy Rivera Ortega was detained on 14 April during a routine 'Parole in Place' interview in El Paso, Texas, a programme intended to regularise undocumented family members of military personnel. She is currently held at the El Paso Service Processing Centre.

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