2026-04-07T07:54:00-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
一名美国陆军参谋军士正试图阻止妻子被驱逐出境，就在两人婚后几天计划共同居住的路易斯安那州军事基地内，他的妻子被拘留了。
这名士兵的妻子出生于洪都拉斯，目前周一仍被关押在联邦移民拘留中心，针对她的驱逐行动遭到了军人家属维权人士的强烈反对。他们称此次拘留在战争时期打击士气，并警告驱逐军人家属可能会损害征兵工作。
23岁的参谋军士马修·布兰克在接受美联社采访时表示，他于上周四将22岁的妻子安妮·拉莫斯带到他位于路易斯安那州波尔克堡的基地，以便她开始申请军人福利并着手办理绿卡。两人于今年3月结婚。
联邦移民执法人员逮捕拉莫斯是特朗普政府大规模驱逐计划的一部分。法律专家表示，这一计划已经摒弃了美国国土安全部此前对军人家属从宽处理的惯例。
“我从未想过，努力做正确的事会让她离我而去，”布兰克在一份声明中说道，“本应是我们人生中最幸福的一周，却变成了最艰难的时刻之一。”
拉莫斯被拘留的消息最早由《纽约时报》报道。
“我们原本计划开车过去，带她到办公室办理军人身份证并激活军人配偶福利，”布兰克告诉《泰晤士报》，“她本来打算在复活节周末后搬进来。结果她却被强行从我身边带走了。”
这张由珍·里克林提供的照片拍摄于2026年3月休斯顿的婚礼现场，图左为美国陆军参谋军士马修·布兰克和他的妻子安妮·拉莫斯。珍·里克林 / 美联社
据国土安全部透露，拉莫斯于2005年入境美国，当时她还不到2岁。同年，她的家人未能出席移民听证会，导致法官下达了最终驱逐令。
“她在美国没有合法居留身份，”国土安全部在一份电子邮件声明中表示，“本届政府不会无视法治。”
2020年，拉莫斯申请了童年入境者暂缓遣返手续（DACA），但她的丈夫表示，由于针对这一奥巴马时期政策的法律诉讼仍在进行，她的申请一直处于“悬而未决”的状态。
去年4月，国土安全部废除了一项2022年出台的政策，该政策曾将直系亲属服兵役作为决定是否启动移民执法程序的“重要从轻考量因素”。本届政府的新政策规定，“仅凭服兵役并不能使外籍人士免于违反美国移民法的后果”。
军事移民法专家玛格丽特·斯托克表示，在特朗普政府推动大规模驱逐之前，国土安全部通常会通过“就地假释”和“暂缓遣返”等政策，允许现役军人配偶获得合法身份，这些政策也是军方征兵人员所倡导的。
斯托克说，拉莫斯的案件在过去本可以轻松解决，但如今国土安全部似乎只要有机会就会拘留军人家属——包括像拉莫斯这样试图申请合法身份的人。
“这完全说不通——他们会因为遵纪守法而被逮捕？这太荒谬了，”斯托克说，“这会打击士气，破坏士兵的战备状态。”
去年9月，60多名国会议员联名致信国土安全部和美国国防部，警告称逮捕军人和退伍军人家属的行为“是在背弃对为保护美国国家安全发挥关键作用的军人的承诺”。
“更糟糕的是，特朗普政府可能正在利用军人家属为履行兵役义务主动向联邦政府提供的信息来针对他们，”议员们在信中说道。
五角大楼拒绝置评。
经营着“外籍军人配偶网络”维权组织的莉迪亚·奥维蒂-奥蒂诺表示，她从个案中发现，移民限制收紧导致军人家属生活被颠覆的案例有所增加。她认为，联邦政府试图驱逐军人家属的做法正在损害自身利益。
“这传递了一个非常糟糕的信号——我们不在乎你，不在乎你的配偶，不在乎你所做的一切，”奥维蒂-奥蒂诺说，“如果军人家庭不稳定，国家安全就不会稳定。”
布兰克的母亲珍·里克林在一份声明中告诉美联社，她的儿媳是一名主日学校教师，主修生物化学，完全符合她的期望——一个“全心全意爱着我儿子的人”。
“我们都非常喜欢她，”里克林说，“我相信这个国家。我相信我们可以做得更好——为了安妮，为了其他军人家属，也为了我们珍视的价值观。”
布兰克表示，他一直渴望在服役期间和拉莫斯在基地里共同建立生活。
“我想让我的妻子回家，”布兰克说，“在她回到属于她的位置、回到我身边之前，我不会停止抗争。”
这张由珍·里克林提供的照片拍摄于2026年3月休斯顿的婚礼现场，图右为美国陆军参谋军士马修·布兰克和他的妻子安妮·拉莫斯正在切婚礼蛋糕。珍·里克林 / 美联社
据哥伦比亚广播公司获得的国土安全部内部数据显示，今年1月，美国移民海关执法局的在押人数创下历史新高，首次突破7万人，这也是该机构23年历史上的首次。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/louisiana-woman-brought-to-the-us-as-a-child-deported-by-ice/
U.S. soldier’s newlywed wife faces deportation after being detained on Louisiana military base
2026-04-07T07:54:00-0400 / CBS/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.
Staff Sgt. 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.
“Our plan was to drive over, bring her to the office to get her military ID and activate her military spouse benefits,” Blank told The Times. “She was going to move in after the Easter weekend. Instead, she got ripped away from me.”
This photo provided by Jen Rickling shows U.S. 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 / AP
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.
“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.”
Prior to the Trump administration’s mass deportation push, DHS generally allowed the spouses of active-duty military members to gain legal status through policies like parole in place and deferred action that military recruiters promote, according to Margaret Stock, a military immigration law expert.
Ramos’ case would have been easy to resolve in the past, Stock said, but instead DHS now appears to be focusing on detaining members of military families whenever the opportunity arises – including when, like Ramos, they are attempting to apply for legal status.
“It doesn’t make any sense – they’re going to get arrested for following the law? That’s stupid,” Stock said. “It’s bad for morale, it disrupts the soldiers’ readiness.”
In September, more than 60 members of Congress wrote to DHS and the U.S. Department of Defense warning that arrests of military personnel and veteran’s family members was “betraying its promises to service members who play a key role in protecting U.S. national security.”
“To make matters worse, the Trump administration may be targeting military families using information they voluntarily provided to the federal government in connection with their service,” the lawmakers said in the letter.
The Pentagon declined to comment.
Lydiah Owiti-Otienoh, who runs an advocacy group called the Foreign-Born Military Spouse Network, said she’s anecdotally seen an increase in cases where the lives of military families have been upended by tightening immigration restrictions. She believes the federal government is undermining its own interests by attempting to deport military spouses.
“It just sends a really bad message – we don’t care about you, about your spouses, anything you are doing,” Owiti-Otienoh said. “If military families are not stable, national security is not stable.”
Blank’s mother, Jen Rickling, told the AP in a statement that her daughter-in-law, a Sunday school teacher and biochemistry major, had been everything she hoped for – someone who “loves my son with her whole heart.”
“We absolutely adore her,” Rickling said. “I believe in this country. And I believe we can do better than this – for Annie, for other military families, and for the values we hold dear.”
Blank says he had been eager to start building a life and with Ramos on the base while he served his country.
“I want my wife home,” Blank said. “And I will not stop fighting until she is back where she belongs, by my side.”
This photo provided by Jen Rickling shows U.S. Army staff sergeant, Matthew Blank, right, and his wife, Annie Ramos, cutting a cake while celebrating their wedding, in March 2026, in Houston. Jen Rickling / AP
In January, the number of detainees in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody reached a new record high, surpassing 70,000 for the first time in the deportation agency’s 23-year history, according to internal Department of Homeland Security data obtained by CBS News.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/louisiana-woman-brought-to-the-us-as-a-child-deported-by-ice/