‘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.
This isn’t how you build morale for a ground war in a foreign nation.
If you were to ask for the personification of “The beatings will continue until morale improves” I’m not sure you could do much better than Pete’s dumbass face.
Send ICE to the Middle East. Their budget is big enough.
Have you considered the people doing this are fucking idiots?
Sure it is. Gotta let the troops know what they’re fighting for.
Do these stories change minds, or are conservatives such masters of cognitive dissonance that nothing at all will cause them to defect from their in-group?
conservatives aren’t hearing stories like this very much, they certainly don’t read the guardian
I have seen many posts on X (Twitter) like this one, and after reading the comments, I can confirm that the latter is true. It truly seems to me that conservatives are incapable of empathy.
Exactly. They just shrug and go, “Oh, well. Can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. Has he considered marrying a white woman? He should head to his local church, I’m sure there’s a nice young thing he can scoop up there.”
She was a Sunday school teacher so it’s possible that’s where he got this one
Keep in mind that a significant portion of internet comments are bots, especially on X.
That’s exactly what a bot would say!
Kidding. I know. You’re right.
Conservative don’t go to platforms that have these kinds of stories.
It’s an echo chamber remember?
they have an alternate algorithm. when news like this come up, they perceive it as negative and it impacts whatever engagement they have. Similar to how we start to tune out of stuff that make us upset.
They went all in on and are double downing on “fake news” because they identify with their leader all too well.
edit: the jubilee videos are a good example of how they’ll rush to debate a “lib”, but they all can’t agree with each other’s facts its insane.
doubtful they dont arnt fed these stories on places like FOX, conservative radio, or right wing media. its to keep these people ignorant.
Cognitive dissonance isn’t a skill, it’s a bias. Generally the way it goes is that the worse things get, the tighter people hold on to their existing belief.
Think about it like this: people living in a prehistoric village are suffering from a famine. Under a lot of stress, people start arguing with each other about what the group should be doing. One person is suffering from cognitive dissonance because they believe the group has the wrong idea. Now, should that person abandon the group and go off on their own? Or should they stick it out and just try to survive?
Evolution favours sticking with the group. Hence cognitive dissonance resolves into status quo bias. Now you might say we’re no longer in that sort of situation. That doesn’t matter actually, because our brains are basically the same as they were 10,000 years ago! We have all the same biases, it’s our environment that has changed so much.
So why is it different for you or me? Simple. We’re part of different groups than they are.
Well, yes. The only things that change people’s minds are peer pressure and horrific trauma. People generally believe what their trusted in-group folks believe. And given how many stories there’ve been like “my family was abducted by ice and i spent a month in jail, but i’d still support trump” I’m not sure about trauma.
One difference that sets maga types apart is their “in-group” is overflowing with liars, fools, and other scumbags. Healthier people consider better people to be in-group.
They never hear about it. And if they do, they assume she did something to antagonize ice and it was his fault for not “controlling his woman”.
And all the heroic men and women in The God Blessed United States Military will just talk about how this troubles them but they serve the flag, not the rapist giving them orders and that if people don’t start properly respecting them then they don’t see a reason to care.
1st the Latinos came for our jobs, now they have come for our soldiers!
And simultaneously they’re lazy and don’t work, and have also taken all the jobs.
Ramos’s plight is one of only several instances that contradict Trump’s initial claims that his ongoing immigration crackdown would prioritize deporting dangerous criminals.
They really need better editing. It’s clear from the rest of the paragraph they didn’t mean the ‘only’ but it’s a rather unfortunate error.
I always thought that a small part of the reason that we, as a nation, try to respect our military and veterans is that it’s a bad idea to train people to be good at killing other people, and then to antagonize them.
The higher ups wouldn’t want to create a situation where they might become a target. But lately it seems like the civilian government has become much more abusive to the military and veterans. It’s so foolish.
It’s like training Batman and then constantly trying to piss him off by attacking his city and family.
“Total institutionalization.”
the gop has pretty much are the abusers, and gaslights the veterans, and convince them that being using as cannon fodder is good. plus all the dinos that support this,
“Are you a bad enough dude to save your wife?”
“Alternatively, are you a bad enough dude to **** the president?”
Nope. Never going to be a bad enough dude to fuck the Mango Mussolini.
Save your wife and defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Sounds like a soldier needs to use what he’s been trained to do…
Despicable. But very naive that she went into the office to try to sort this out in person. Should have sent a lawyer instead. I guess some people don’t follow the news very closely.
They think that because they voted for trump they’re exempt from the consequences they’ve forced on others.
Well I doubt this woman voted for anyone since she has no legal status.
I follow the news and even I am always a little shocked by this. A few years ago they would have helped her and then touted it as an example of how well we treat our military.
What a shame. He looks filled with hope for the future and crayons for lunch.
I understand the confusion, but this is an Army sergeant, not a Marine.
Looks like it’s a whole box for me!
I always think of that one tweet. I’ll serve crack before I serve this country.
Thank you for your sacrifice.
He may turn 24 soon. Or he may have joined when he was 17, that’s possible with his parents consent
I’ve met multiple people who married immigrants who overstayed their visa and had to deport for something like 5-10 years before being let into the US.
The citizen doesn’t need to leave obviously, but in the multiple cases I’ve personally known dating back to the 90s, the partner leaves the country to be with them until they can come back.
This is however not how it works if you marry someone here on a legitimate visa. Generally after marrying within the timeline of a visa before it expires you can stay with the citizen. My wife did this, and we just finished the process recently. You still need to get your paperwork in, but there’s some kind of grace period due to the marriage physically in the US along with the petition.
interesting if they marry citizens, how come they dont try to get the process rolling to become a permanent resident or a citizen? are they just weighing thier options?
I don’t know the exact reason why, but what i’ve been told is that once you’re known to have overstayed you’re effectively banned from getting another visa to come back in for an amount of time, with that time starting after you are documented as leaving.
I’m pretty sure there’s something that when you overstay a visa, get deported or have some kind of issue you basically can’t get another one for 10 years. If you accrue a debt like medical debt and then leave without paying, the same is true afaik - can’t get in until you pay, and I think the 10 year wait starts when it’s paid in full.
We had a lawyer for my wife’s process and she guided us. It’s been a while, but we submitted our documentation within the timeline of her visa, and the lawyer told us she’s fine to stay even though the visa expires before you really get a response beyond “we received your paperwork” confirming delivery. I think you get a case number with USCIS very early as well. It’s been over 5 years for us at this point and my memory of the specific steps is not great. My wife handled the process for the most part since she couldn’t legally work at all until she got a work authorization a couple of years in.
I think we also were given a warning to not leave after getting married until she got a green card because then they wouldn’t let her back in or give her work authorization until the sponsorship cleared. There were also many extra delays and extra steps added to the whole process during the first trump administration, like the very long wait for work authorizations was not typical (and an obvious attempt at stopping poor immigrants.) I’m not going to lie, I was worried outside of the biden administration about them throwing a wrench into it. Many people mid-process this past year had their visas revoked and were deported even during their final interview or after the interview while going to the swearing in ceremony despite doing nothing wrong, being in the correct process, and already being cleared. Their problem was that they were somali or haitian or from some other vulnerable country with the “wrong” skin color.
I know it’s not the point, but is anyone else confused by a 23 year old serving more than 5 years in the military?
I assume it’s just a typo/bad editing or something…
No? He turned 18 years old and enlisted 5.5 years ago, has now served over 5 years.
I had forgotten portions of years exist. Thanks for clearing that up.
You can join the Army at 17 with parental consent. You can even go to boot camp between your junior and senior year then finish you senior year and go on to your job training.
That is something I didn’t know. It’s also a bummer.
