Already on a deportation flight: Soldier's wife released after a month in detention center
· Telemundo McAllen (KTLM)
The wife of a U.S. soldier, who spent over a month in a federal immigration detention center, stated that she is back home after agents removed her from a deportation flight to Brazil. The Associated Press highlighted the case of Maisa Lopes Eliaser earlier this month as one of several spouses or parents of U.S. military personnel who had been detained after the Trump administration reversed protections for military families amid its push for mass deportations. Following the AP report, a group of Democrats in Congress launched an investigation into the deportations of military service members and their families. Eliaser was placed on a deportation flight on Wednesday bound for her native Brazil when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on the plane received a phone call about her mid-flight, she told the AP. She noted that an ICE agent then asked her if she wanted to continue to Brazil or return to the United States. 'Who made the call? We don’t know,' said Eliaser's husband, Army Sergeant First Class Alexis Jaramillo. 'But someone made the call, and then she came back.'
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