The wife of an active-duty US Army sergeant has been deported to her native Honduras as part of the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown.
Cristy Maryori Villafranca-Trejo was arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on July 11 near Fort Bliss, Texas, where her husband, Army Sgt. Hedar Leonel Turcios Juarez, is stationed.
Villafranca-Trejo entered the United States from Honduras in 2016 when she was 18. She has no known criminal record and married Turcios Juarez in 2022. They have a six-year-old daughter.
Following her deportation, Turcios Juarez has been left to care for their daughter while continuing his military duties. He said the situation has made it difficult to balance his responsibilities as a soldier and a father.
US authorities said Villafranca-Trejo had received due process and had been issued a final deportation order by an immigration judge in 2017 after she failed to attend an immigration hearing.
Her husband, however, said she never received notice of the hearing and only discovered the deportation order years later when they applied for her legal status.
The couple had been working with lawyers to resolve the matter and had also applied for military parole-in-place, a programme that can allow certain close relatives of US military personnel to remain in the country while seeking permanent residency.
According to reports, Villafranca-Trejo is at least the seventh spouse or parent of an active-duty US military member to be deported under Trump's current immigration policies.
The Associated Press has identified more than 50 cases involving immediate family members of US troops who were detained by federal immigration authorities since protections for military families were reduced.
Despite the separation from his wife, Turcios Juarez said he still wants to remain in the US Army, although he is uncertain how he will manage his military career while caring for his daughter alone.
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