Family "is heartbroken" to learn soldier's wife won't be released by ICE after all

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Editor's note: This communicative has been updated with caller accusation aft antecedently reporting she was expected to beryllium released.

The woman of an Army worker who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement aft an migration assignment past week is not going to beryllium released from national custody aft all, her household and lawyer said Wednesday. The quality came conscionable hours aft her husband, Sgt. First Class Jose Serrano, told CBS News she'd been informed she was being released.

"As you tin ideate the household is heartbroken," lawyer Matthew James Kozik said.

Serrano's wife, El Salvador autochthonal Deisy Rivera Ortega, was arrested by ICE connected April 14 during an assignment related to a pending exertion for an migration program, known arsenic Parole successful Place, designed to support subject spouses and parents from deportation.

Kozik said they spoke with her earlier Wednesday and she was "elated" that migration officials had told her she'd beryllium released by the extremity of the time from an ICE detention halfway successful El Paso. However, helium said, DHS/ICE officials past told him she would not beryllium released into the U.S. but would beryllium deported to Mexico. Kozik said helium is preparing a tribunal situation to artifact her deportation.

Serrano, who has served successful the Army for 27 years, including 3 deployments successful Afghanistan, first revealed to CBS News earlier this week that his woman had been arrested by ICE aft surviving successful the U.S. for a decade.

The Department of Homeland Security told CBS News astatine the clip that Rivera Ortega had been arrested due to the fact that of a deportation bid dating backmost to 2019. DHS said she was convicted of entering the U.S. illegally, a national misdemeanor.

Because Rivera Ortega was granted ineligible extortion successful 2019 from being deported to El Salvador, Serrano said helium was informed she could beryllium sent to a 3rd country, similar Mexico, wherever she has nary ties.

CBS News has reached retired to representatives for the DHS for remark connected the latest connected Rivera Ortega's case.

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