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.

    • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Today, ICE also publicly beat up and detained a guy with three sons who are Marines.

      I hope these stories circulate through the active duty guys, and they think about it when Hegseth orders them to fire on American protesters.

      • keyez@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        I don’t understand it either, I have a friend who’s parents were deported in trumps first term because their visas lapsed and they had been here for 25+ years working and paying taxes and opening businesses. My friend last year said there was no difference in who he voted for they were both terrible choices and I was dumbfounded, one is clearly going to have more direct negative consequences again but they wouldn’t budge.

      • C45513@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 days ago

        it’s a cult. This is the terrifying power of unquestioningly believing what you’re told