"It rips my heart apart": U.S. military veteran calls on ICE to release wife

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A 20-year Army and Texas National Guard veteran is pleading with ICE to release his wife, who faces deportation to Honduras. Wilmer Trujillo, a U.S. citizen, says the separation is devastating his family as immigration officials hold his spouse, Arelys Barahona Martinez. The case highlights the tension between military service and immigration enforcement, with Trujillo arguing that his decades of service should carry weight in his wife's detention. His emotional appeal underscores the human stakes of deportation cases involving mixed-status families.