Baton Rouge, Lousiana Marine Corps veteran Adrian Clouatre, 26, tells the AP he has to keep lying to his 2 year-old son Noah that “Mama will be home soon” and switched 3 month-old daughter Lyn to baby formula after his wife Paola was tossed in the ICE gulag in Monroe last month.

Paola, 25, a Mexican national was detained when she showed up at an immigration services office to apply for a green card, finding that she had been subject to a deportation order years ago because of her estranged mother who had abandoned her as a teenager, but figured that now she was married to a US citizen everything would be fine. It wasn’t and ICE cuffed her in the lobby.

Before the convicted felon President Trump had returned to office she would’ve been issued a green card as a family member of a veteran, but that policy was quietly revoked. Marine Corps recruiters by the way are still advertising that service is a way to get family members exempted from deportation orders. Corps spokesman Master Sgt Tyler Hlavac told the AP that recruiters have now been informed they are “not the proper authority” to “imply that the Marine Corps can secure immigration relief for applicants or their families.” Sorry losers and suckers, but America First.

Paola Clouarte’s story is not to be confused with that of Ana Gabriella Diaz and her American husband Roberto Gutierrez. Diaz’s daughter is 16 months old and was still breastfeeding before her mother was arrested in Cailfornia and tossed probably in the same gulag at Monroe (KABC’s reporting just says “1,400 miles away” very roughly the distance to Monroe as the crow flies).