U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained the wife of a Marine Corps veteran in Louisiana during a routine immigration appointment in New Orleans.

Marine Corps veteran Adrian Clouatre doesn’t know how to tell his children where their mother went after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained her last month.

When his nearly 2-year-old son Noah asks for his mother before bed, Clouatre just tells him, “Mama will be back soon.” When his 3-month-old, breastfeeding daughter Lyn is hungry, he gives her a bottle of baby formula instead. He’s worried how his newborn will bond with her mother absent skin-to-skin contact.

His wife, Paola, is one of tens of thousands of people in custody and facing deportation as the Trump administration pushes for immigration officers to arrest 3,000 people a day.

  • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
    60·
    11 hours ago

    This is so fucked up. The wife was brought in illegally when she was a minor by her mother. Her mom applied for asylum to make their status legal but missed an immigration hearing 7 years ago, triggering a deportation order. After getting married she applied for a green card like she was supposed to do, but instead they are going to deport her based on her mom’s mistake.

    She didn’t choose to come to the US, didn’t choose to do so illegally, didn’t choose (or even know about) her mother missing an immigration hearing, and didn’t choose to stay even though there was a deportation order because she didn’t know about the order. She followed the rules and is being punished.

    • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
      39·
      11 hours ago

      Why would missing one appointment even be grounds for deportation for anyone in the first place? Let alone deporting their daughter several years later and after she is married to another citizen. She has multiple valid claims to citizenship and it’s blatantly obvious. But someone saw a rule that was broken so there must be punishment I guess

      • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.socialEnglish
        18·
        8 hours ago

        One of the Big Lies that they repeated over and over throughout the election season was the one about the “border crisis,” where allegedly criminals and rapists were flooding into the country across the southern border by the millions. They promised to round up and deport all of them, literally millions of people. You can see where the problem arose: Lies collided head-on with reality. There simply are not millions of migrants for ICE to round up. They don’t exist. They never existed. It was all a lie.

        Now, the regime has to appear like it’s Doing Something™ by actually deporting people. Stephen Miller has even given ICE a quota of 3,000 deportations a day, and it’s struggling. They have to make the numbers somehow, and the low-hanging fruit are the immigrants that they already have records on, and know about. ICE can just comb the immigration records, and go pick up people whom they know exactly where to find. Morality and logic have nothing to do with it, it’s all about throwing the red meat of performative cruelty to their base, and intimidation to their political enemies.

      • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        10·
        8 hours ago

        Because the goal is to remove brown people, and immigration status is an easy way to start doing that. They will move on to a more Permanent Solution as time goes on.

  • psychadlligoat@piefed.socialEnglish
    6310·
    13 hours ago

    “I’m all for ‘get the criminals out of the country,’ right?” he said. “But the people that are here working hard, especially the ones married to Americans — I mean, that’s always been a way to secure a green card.”

    Didn’t care until it impacted him, ex marine, dude totally voted for Trump. So: good, hope you and your kids suffer the consequences of your actions, scum

    • Draces@lemmy.world
      2311·
      12 hours ago

      I don’t think the kid voted for Trump. You’re not really standing on higher moral ground asking for an innocent children to suffer

      • psychadlligoat@piefed.socialEnglish
        2117·
        12 hours ago

        bUt WhAt AbOuT tHe KiDs?

        Scum parents should have considered their kids. if they didn’t, I sure as fuck wont

        • Draces@lemmy.world
          231·
          11 hours ago

          Wanting the parent to suffer is one thing and it’s fine. Wanting the parent to suffer and not caring is not great but defensible. But explicitly wanting the innocent kid to suffer is seriously fucked up. You’re a very bad person if you stand behind that statement. I’m assuming it’s just poor communication though and you don’t really realize what you said?

          hope you and your kids suffer

        • histic@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          11·
          2 hours ago

          So you don’t want the cartels out of the country and such it doesn’t specify who not everyone is your enemy

          • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            2 hours ago

            That’s a great example because ending the war on drugs would be much more effective than deporting “criminals”. The Republicans elected a criminal; when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

  • mcv@lemm.eeEnglish
    92·
    14 hours ago

    the administration is “not going to ignore the rule of law.”

    So why is Trump not in prison, then?

    This administration has constantly ignored the rule of law.

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      451·
      14 hours ago

      “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

      • mcv@lemm.eeEnglish
        12·
        13 hours ago

        That is very well put, and as far as I can tell it applies to all forms of conservatism, from monarchism where the king is above the law and peasants have no rights, to oligarchy where the rich are above the law while the poor have no rights, to fascism where the inner circle and the stormtroopers who serve them are above the law while minorities have no rights, or class-based societies where your laws and rights depend on your class or caste, and theocracy where the clergy decides your rights and obligations depending on your position.