US soldier trying to halt wife’s deportation after she was detained on Louisiana military base

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Army staff sergeant, Matthew Blank, left, and his wife, Annie Ramos, posing for a photo while celebrating their wedding, in March, 2026, in Houston. (Jen Rickling via AP) 2026-04-06T22:59:58Z NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A U.S.

Army staff sergeant is trying to halt his wife’s deportation after she was detained inside a Louisiana military base where the couple was planning to live together just days after their wedding.

The effort to remove the soldier’s wife, who was born in Honduras and remained in a federal immigration detention center Monday, has drawn backlash from military family advocates who called the detention demoralizing in a time of war and warned that deporting spouses could undermine recruitment.

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Matthew Blank said he brought his wife, Annie Ramos, 22, to his base in Fort Polk, Louisiana, last Thursday so that she could begin the process to receive military benefits and take steps toward a green card.

The couple married in March.

Federal immigration agents detained Ramos as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda, which legal experts say has dispensed with the U.S.

Department of Homeland Security’s practice of leniency toward families of military members. “I never imagined that trying to do the right thing would lead to her being taken away from me,” said Blank, 23, in a statement to The Associated Press. “What was supposed to be the happiest week of our lives has turned into one of the hardest.” Ramos’ detention was first reported by The New York Times.

Ramos entered the U.S. in 2005, when she was younger than 2 years old.

That same year, her family failed to appear for an immigration hearing, leading a judge to issue a final order of removal, according to DHS.

Read More “She has no legal status to be in this country,” DHS said in an emailed statement. “This administration is not going to ignore the rule of law.” In 2020, Ramos applied to receive Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals , also known as DACA, but her husband says her application has remained “in limbo” amid legal fights to end the Obama-era program.

Last April, DHS eliminated a 2022 policy that considered military service of an immediate family member to be a “significant mitigating factor” in deciding whether or not to pursue immigration enforcement.

The administration’s new policy states that “military service alone does not exempt aliens from the consequences of violating U.S. immigration laws.” P

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