U.S. AUTHORITIES sent Cristy Maryori Villafranca-Trejo back to Honduras on Monday, dividing a household that includes her husband, an active-duty Army sergeant, and their 6-year-old daughter.
Army Sgt. Hedar Leonel Turcios Juarez confirmed his wife’s deportation and destination. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said she “was removed from the United States.”
Turcios Juarez had viewed his military record as a possible way to advance his wife’s citizenship case. He secured his own U.S. citizenship in 2024 following a nine-month assignment in the Middle East, then began seeking citizenship for Villafranca-Trejo. Her removal came before that effort produced the outcome the family sought.
The chain of events began July 11. Turcios Juarez said immigration officers took his wife into custody outside a Walmart in full view of their daughter. DHS characterized the arrest as a “targeted immigration enforcement operation” and said Villafranca-Trejo received due process.
The department alleges that she entered the country without legal authorization. Turcios Juarez said she came to the United States in 2016 after fleeing violence in Honduras.
Her deportation raises the known total to at least seven among spouses and parents of active-duty U.S. personnel during President Donald Trump’s current enforcement campaign. The cases demonstrate that a relative’s active-duty status does not prevent immigration detention or removal.
Federal enforcement has reached another branch of the armed forces. Authorities placed the immigrant father of a USS Abraham Lincoln sailor in custody over the weekend. The sailor was serving aboard the aircraft carrier following its Middle East deployment during the Iran war. His father remains detained.
The administration’s immigration program has revoked visas and green cards and expanded deportations. Applicants for some work visas also face higher new fees. Trump describes the campaign as a domestic-security measure. Rights organizations say it has weakened free-speech and due-process protections and heightened racial-profiling fears among ethnic minorities.
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When the US is deporting literally it’s military members (called service members for a reason, serving your country) then it is in trouble. White Nationalists keep at it omg
If this doesn’t scream fascist behavior, I don’t know what would 🤬