Kanishka Singh for Reuters reports that the immigrant father of a U.S. sailor on board the USS Abraham Lincoln, which was deployed in the Middle East during the Iran war, was placed in immigration detention, the sailor said in a Facebook post.
More on this story – and it does not get better– from the Associated Press:
- Luis Manuel Aviles, 48, was arrested after leaving his house to take his car to the mechanic, according to his wife, Argelia Aviles. She said her husband, a handyman in Key West, Florida, has a permit to work in the United States. Originally from Nicaragua, he has lived in the U.S. for 19 years.
The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that Border Patrol agents arrested Luis Aviles on Saturday in Key West and that he will remain in ICE custody while the government seeks to deport him. “Having a family member in the military is not a free pass to violate our nation’s laws,” the department said Sunday.
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