Posted on 07/31/2025 7:43:18 AM PDT by TheDon
A Marine Corps veteran’s wife has been released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention following advocacy from Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican who backs President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration crackdown.
Until this week, Mexican national Paola Clouatre had been one of tens of thousands of people in ICE custody as the Trump administration continues to press immigration officers to arrest 3,000 people a day suspected of being in the U.S. illegally.
Emails reviewed by The Associated Press show that Kennedy’s office said Friday that it put in a request for the Department of Homeland Security to release her after a judge halted her deportation order earlier that week. By Monday, she was out of a remote ICE detention center in north Louisiana and home in Baton Rouge with her veteran husband Adrian Clouatre and their two young children.
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“I was feeling bad,” she said of detention. “I was feeling like I failed my kids.”
It will likely be a multiyear court process before Paola Clouatre’s immigration court proceedings are formally closed, but things look promising, and she should be able to obtain her green card eventually, her attorney said.
For now, she’s wearing an ankle monitor.
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Kind of did. It's your problem to fix. Not the US.
She’s a Mexican National. So what’s the problem. She was the Marine in the family.
She WASN’T THE MARINE.
“I was feeling like I failed my kids.”
Seems like her husband failed as well. Husbands are supposed to be protectors and make sure proper filings are completed on time.
Marine corps veteran wife is a Mexican national
Who is the marine corps veteran?
Why is she not a citizen if she’s married to an American
These lousy lying leave out the facts yank us around news pieces are very annoying.
Not a US Citizen...no green card, and has been here for years. She did “fail her kids”.
That’s a problem.
No contradiction there.
Wonder how many more "exceptions" will be made.
Initially she was present legally as a child with her mother, but her mother allowed the legal status for both of them to lapse. This is a problem that undoubtedly should be dealt with, but it sounds like she was dealing with it.
That she is mother to two children by an American father to whom she is married ought to be given weight as well.
Because you did.
You, and your husband, had years to get your immigration status fixed. And you didn't. Now you have to be under house arrest until you do what you should have done years ago.
I hope your kids learn the RIGHT lesson from this.
It will. I seriously doubt she gets deported, and she shouldn't. But she DOES need to get her status straightened out ... a task which will be completed ONLY due to the President's policy of enforcing immigration law. Go Trump!
No, you taught them that criminals go to jail so follow the rules.
You, and your US Marine husband, failed to fix your status. Apparently you had years to do it.
So how did this become our problem?
Send her back. If she doesn’t want to break up the family, they can all go.
“ You, and your US Marine husband, failed to fix your status. Apparently you had years to do it.
So how did this become our problem?”
There’s something missing in this story
When they mention a politician the get you to look the other way
There is a big piece of her bs story she is leaving out
It is not our problem.
Exactly.
That’s right.
Five years olds don’t know right from wrong with regards to immigration status. That’s when she arrived in America. She’s a dreamer who already has protection. I’m sure that’s why Senator Kennedy waved the BS Flag on the arrest.
She violated the law, she should go back to Mexico and come in the right way. If she wants to stay with her family they can go to. Illegal is illegal and the line has to be drawn somewhere.
“It is not our problem.”
An important change in the attitude towards the problems of illegal aliens.
As long as the exceptions are on a case by case basis, and not carte blanche. If I am using that term right.
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