Deisy Rivera Ortega, the wife of U.S. Army sergeant Jose Serrano, is currently detained at the El Paso Service Processing Center in Texas after being arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during an immigration appointment on April 14. Serrano, who has served three tours in Afghanistan, reported that immigration agents arrested his wife without a warrant, leaving him without information about her situation. Rivera Ortega, originally from El Salvador, is challenging her detention in U.S. District Court and has requested to block her deportation to Mexico, a country where she has no ties. Her attorney, Matthew James Kozik, emphasized that Rivera Ortega held a valid work permit and had previously been granted a withholding of removal. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stated that Rivera Ortega entered the U.S. illegally in 2016 and that a final order of removal was issued in December 2019. The recent shift in immigration policy under the Trump administration has eliminated leniency previously extended to military families, stating that military service alone does not exempt individuals from immigration enforcement. This change raises concerns about the treatment of immigrant family members of U.S. service members.