"I'm begging my own country to let my wife go": Veteran fights to prevent wife's deportation
Princeton, Texas — Retired staff sergeant Wilmer Trujillo served roughly 20 years in the U.S. Army and the Texas National Guard, with deployments and assignments in Afghanistan, Iraq and South Korea.
TL;DR
- Retired staff sergeant Wilmer Trujillo served approximately 20 years in the U.S. Army and Texas National Guard.
- His wife, Arelys Barahona-Martinez, a Honduran native, was arrested by ICE during a routine check-in.
- Barahona-Martinez has no criminal record but entered the U.S. illegally twice and has a deportation order from 2005.
- She is being held in an ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas.
- Trujillo and his family are trying to find a legal path for Barahona-Martinez to obtain permanent U.S. residency.
- Barahona-Martinez's return to the U.S. was reportedly to seek medical attention for her son and protect him from gangs in Honduras.