ICE detained Paola Clouatre, the wife of Marine Corps veteran Adrian Clouatre, last month in Louisiana as the Trump administration pushes immigration officers to make 3,000 arrests daily. Paola, a 25-year-old Mexican national, was taken into custody at a green card appointment, despite breastfeeding a 3-month-old daughter and raising a toddler with her husband.
Paola’s 2018 deportation order stemmed from her mother missing a court hearing years earlier. The Clouatres say they were unaware of the order until recently. Adrian, a service-disabled veteran, now drives eight hours round-trip to visit her in ICE detention.
The administration has ended discretionary protections once granted to military families. A February memo confirmed USCIS will no longer exempt military spouses from deportation referrals. Over 26,000 such cases have been referred to ICE as of June.
Military law experts argue this reverses past practice and contradicts Marine Corps recruitment ads claiming family “protection from deportation.”
“We tried to do the right thing,” Adrian said. “It’s just a hell of a way to treat a veteran.”
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