ICE Snatches a Marine Vet's Wife from Her Breastfeeding Infant

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1. US ICE detained a Marine veteran's wife

Updated on: June 25, 2025 / 2:33 PM EDT / CBS/AP

After U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained Marine Corps veteran Adrian Clouatre's wife last month, he doesn't know how to tell his children where their mother went.

When his nearly 2-year-old son Noah asks for his mother before bed, Clouatre just tells him, "Mama will be back soon." When his 3-month-old, breastfeeding daughter Lyn is hungry, he gives her a bottle of baby formula instead. He's worried how his newborn will bond with her mother absent skin-to-skin contact.

His wife, Paola, is one of tens of thousands of people in custody and facing deportation as the Trump administration pushes for immigration officers to arrest 3,000 people a day. Earlier this month, arrests by ICE during President Trump's second term topped 100,000, according to internal government data obtained by CBS News.

"They knew I was veteran, they just ripped her away from me and her children, from her breastfeeding, you know, newborn daughter, it's almost inhumane," Adrian Clouatre told CBS News ...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-detains-marine-corps-veteran-wife/

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2. Marine Corps veteran's wife arrested

Paola Clouatre, 25, was still a child when her mother brought her from Mexico to claim asylum in the U.S. more than a decade ago

Io Dodds
in San Francisco
Monday 23 June 2025 17:20 EDT

ICE is threatening to deport the wife of a Marine Corps veteran who was still breastfeeding their youngest child, according to reports.

Paola Clouatre, 25, of Baton Rouge in Louisiana, was brought to the U.S. from Mexico by her mother to seek asylum while she was still a child, her husband Adrian Clouatre told the Associated Press.

But when Paola attended a green card appointment with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on May 27, she was detained by ICE over a seven-year-old deportation order that Adrian claims she had only recently found out about ...

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/adrian-clouatre-paola-clouatre-ice-arrest-b2775507.html

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