Army Sergeant's Wife Faces Deportation, Fighting for Stay

0:00An active duty U.S. Army sergeant with 27 years of service is watching his wife face deportation to Mexico, a country they have no ties to. Sergeant First Class Jose Serrano, station at Fort Bliss in Texas, has deployed to Afghanistan three times. His wife, Dizzy Fidelina Rivera Ortega from El Salvador, got detained last week during a routine immigration interview for parole in place, a program. Met to help undocumented family members of military folks stay legally. She showed up at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building in El Paso on April 14, with all her paperwork in order, including a valid work permit through. 2030 from her job at IHG Army Hotels on base, but right there in the hallway, agents grabbed her, cuffed her, and took her away without a word to her husband. Serrano says they followed every rule. She just works and goes to church. Now he's struggling hard. His post-traumatic stress disorder flaring up after years of stability. He can't sleep or focus, even on meds, and Army rules make it nearly impossible for him to visit her in Mexico if she sent there.

1:08Her lawyer, Matthew Kozik, points out she got withholding of removal from El Salvador back in 2019, so no final deportation order should. Stick. They're in federal court fighting it since the Department of Homeland Security claims she entered illegally and holds her at the El Paso Processing. Center with zero updates. This hits close to home for military families grinding through the system, but Serrano and his team aren't backing down, hoping the court step in. Before it's too late and tear another vet's world apart. That's the story for today. Derm news today. Driven by AI. I'm Corey with the story.