“I was on active duty in the Marine Corps for several years and was honorably discharged. At no time during in my enlistment did I think that my parents were entitled to break any US laws because I was a Marine. These people have so little respect for US immigration laws that, despite all of the arrests and deportations of illegal aliens happening now, they arrogantly entered a US Military base on numerous occasions and the two Marines aided and abetted them. The bigger question is why, other than being in the custody of ICE, is it so easy for someone who isn’t even supposed to be in the country allowed access onto a US Military base? They have sentries, gates and fences for a reason. The two Marines need to be court marshaled and base security needs to be investigated and dealt with as necessary” – Top comment on the New York Post article “Father of US Marine arrested and deported by ICE after visiting pregnant daughter at military base,” posted Wednesday.

The article details how California man Esteban Rios – who was wearing his “lucky” hat and t-shirt both saying “Proud dad of a US Marine” – and wife Luisa Rodriguez were detained at the gate to Camp Pendelton by ICE agents last week when they were driving onto the base to visit their son, Steve, and pregnant daughter, Ashley, both stationed there along with Ashley’s husband. So really Esteban’s gear should’ve said “Proud dad of two US Marines.” It’s not clear if Louisa’s been deported too, but Esteban is definitely back in Mexico after 30+ years raising his family in California.

Also unclear is how many kids he had here, but it does seem like it was just the two, both of them serving the nation, plus a grandchild on the way who just might be inclined to join up too after being raised by two Marines plus an uncle who proudly served in the Corps… unless Pete Hegseth reads the comment and gets the idea to have the military court system to get to work on creating a new UCMJ class of criminal offense: Dereliction by not forcibly deporting one’s own parents.