Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested the wife of a US Army sergeant during an immigration appointment in El Paso, Texas, last week, as questions mount over changes to enforcement rules for military families. Deisy Rivera Ortega was detained on 14 April while attending a meeting about her parole-in-place application, a programme designed to help spouses of service members secure legal residency.
Her husband, Sgt First Class Jose Serrano, a 27-year Army veteran with three deployments to Afghanistan, said they presented military IDs but agents still took her into custody. Serrano, 51, has spoken exclusively to CBS News about the incident, expressing confusion over why it occurred despite the couple following all legal procedures.
