Father of US Marine arrested & deported after visiting pregnant daughter at military base

Father of US Marine arrested and deported by ICE after visiting pregnant daughter at military base

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A US Marine said his father was deported after both his parents were detained last month by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents while at Camp Pendleton in California.

Steve Rios told NBC 7 that his parents, Esteban Rios and Luisa Rodriguez, were picking up his pregnant younger sister, Ashley, and her husband, who is also a Marine, at the enormous West Coast base on Sept. 28 — just like they had done every weekend for the past few months while expecting their first grandchild.

But this time, Rios said, his parents were stopped at the gate and held for ICE agents, who detained them.

They were released a few hours later with ankle monitors and picked up by their son, who said they were instructed to check in with the agency later that week.

When Rios drove them to their check-in appointment a few days later, he said, they waited for hours before being detained again.

“I just kept on looking at my parents. I didn’t know if it would be the last time I’d see them,” the young Marine said.

Rios shared that his father was wearing a red shirt and a white hat, both of which said “Proud dad of a US Marine,” when he was taken away and deported by ICE agents.

“He said, ‘Yeah, this is my lucky shirt, so we’ll be fine,'” Rios recalled.

He said he spoke briefly to his father on the phone the day after the second detention, and was told his parents were being held in the basement of the federal building that houses ICE and immigration court.

They were later transferred to the Otay Mesa Detention Center, NBC 7 reported.

While his father was deported after being detained by ICE, it’s unclear if his mother suffered the same fate.

Rios, who said he joined the Corps right out of high school to make his parents proud and is currently in the reserves after spending four years on active duty, mentioned that the couple came to the US from Mexico 30 years ago.

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The mom is an illegal too. They are just using the Marine angle to tug on heart strings






Their kids had time to to grow up, marry, get pregnant, become a Marine and Esteban couldn't make the time to become a legal citizen? Neither could the mom?

It was much easier to become a citizen 20 years ago yet they never tried.

Also, this is a great argument for Trump against the birthright for illegals AKA anchor babies. Why were these people allowed to stay for decades just because they crossed the border and spit out a few kids?