‘She got ripped away from me,’ army soldier Matthew Blank said after his wife Annie Ramos was detained in Louisiana

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents under the command of the Trump administration have reportedly detained the wife of a US army staff sergeant at his military base in Louisiana amid his preparations to deploy.

The arrest of Annie Ramos, 22, took place last Thursday, just days after she married 23-year-old Matthew Blank, a soldier who has served for more than five years and previously deployed to the Middle East and Europe, the New York Times first reported on Sunday.

Ramos, a biochemistry student with no criminal history who also teaches Sunday school, had been subject to a deportation order issued in absentia in 2005 when she was an infant after her family missed an immigration court hearing, the New York Times reported.

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      Or stop endangering Iranians and have Americans get off their arses and stop ICE themselves.

      Why the fuck should Iran have to be the ones to shoot at ICE or any other of the evil empires thugs.

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        have Americans get off their arses and stop ICE themselves

        I’m reminded of folks who thought kids doing human wave attacks would be a good deterrent to school shooters.

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            I would say that the Prince of Saud and the Prime Minister of the UK have significantly more influence over the behaviors of the US Federal Government than some random ditch-kicking voter in Peoria.

            Hell, I’m cheering and clapping like a trained seal for the brave freedom-fighting IRGC right now. They’ve spent the last 40 years arming themselves and training to resist the full might of the US military. I have not.

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          There are only about 20,000 ICE agents, even if you only count Democrat voters in 2024 ICE is outnumbered 1:3750.

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            if you only count Democrat voters

            Cuomocrats? Newsom Lovers? Rahm Emmanuel die-hards? That’s your ticket our of this mess?

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        I’m not advocating for Iran solving US made problems but the Iranian army would make almost immediate work of the folks that make up ICE. They are an organized, trained, professional military, ICE is mostly made up of insecure assholes that trained themselves, at best a bunch of cops or former cops. They would get smoked.

        Again I dont want this to happen nor do I think Iran should clean up my home country’s mess, but I do think it would be really really funny to watch those fucks realize what actual war is all about