Immigrant Families in the Line of Fire: The Pentagon's Paradoxical Priorities The recent surge in ICE detentions and deportations of service members' families highlights a stark disconnect between the Department of Defense's rhetoric on military readiness and its actual priorities.
As the Pentagon scrambles to meet recruitment targets, it is doing so at the expense of immigrant communities being targeted by Trump's aggressive immigration crackdown. The cases of Army Spc.
Jasmine Hernandez and her father Aniceto Hernandez Reyna, as well as Annie Ramos, wife of Army Staff Sgt. Matthew Blank, illustrate the devastating consequences of these policies.