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6,600 US VETERAN WIVES ARRESTED BY ICE GESTAPO THUGS (Original Post) orangecrush Nov 13 OP
This harms combat readiness, morale, national security. Irish_Dem Nov 13 #1
Your questions merit an immediate response from HS to get this sorted out and restore the family's unity Deuxcents Nov 13 #2
The number is total clickbait.There's no count of military wives arrested by ICE. hedda_foil Nov 13 #3
Don't know about tge number but it is happening... lame54 Nov 13 #5
May factor in when Trump turns them on us... lame54 Nov 13 #4
Clickbait. Needs verification. MineralMan Nov 13 #6
Misleading headline, but appalling nevertheless pat_k Nov 13 #8
Truth requires no exaggeration. MineralMan Nov 13 #9
Always! pat_k Nov 13 #10
pure clickbait Youtube video... dare I say... misinformation? WarGamer Nov 13 #18
It is. ancianita Nov 13 #11
Your redirection of priorities is... interesting. orangecrush Nov 13 #12
Truth is always my priority. MineralMan Nov 13 #21
6,600 refers to non-citizen parents of U.S. citizen children. pat_k Nov 13 #7
Thank you. orangecrush Nov 13 #14
Sure we know ICE is evil, but not this way, okay? Maybe consider deleting this. It's just not accurate. ancianita Nov 13 #13
Kyle Kulinski is a trusted source for me. orangecrush Nov 13 #15
Maybe. ancianita Nov 13 #16
Respectfully... orangecrush Nov 13 #17
I guess 6600 gets more clicks than 4. WarGamer Nov 13 #19
Thanks for the endorsement orangecrush Nov 13 #23
Abolish ICE! AND Kyle Kulinski is an absolute piece of shit. You can do better than this. WhiskeyGrinder Nov 13 #20
What is the pos statement based on? orangecrush Nov 13 #22

Irish_Dem

(78,101 posts)
1. This harms combat readiness, morale, national security.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 05:53 PM
Nov 13

How do troops deploy and keep their minds on the mission when their wives have been or may be kidnapped?
By your own government no less.

How do you risk your life for a country which kidnaps and jails your spouse.

Deuxcents

(24,873 posts)
2. Your questions merit an immediate response from HS to get this sorted out and restore the family's unity
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 05:56 PM
Nov 13

pat_k

(12,532 posts)
8. Misleading headline, but appalling nevertheless
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 06:18 PM
Nov 13

6,600 refers to the number of non-citizen parents of U.S. citizen children who have been detained.

ancianita

(42,650 posts)
11. It is.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 06:38 PM
Nov 13

The claim that 6,600 US veteran wives were arrested by ICE is false.

This number stems from a misunderstanding of statistics mentioned in a news report about the detention of a veteran's wife. One.

The figure 6,600 actually refers to the number of non-citizen parents of U.S. citizen children who were detained by ICE over a nine-month period, NOT specifically the wives of U.S. veterans.

This figure originated from a CBS News report in June 2025, which mentioned that the wife of a Marine veteran was one of more than 6,600 non-citizen parents of U.S. citizen children detained in the last nine months.
While the specific figure of 6,600 veteran wives is inaccurate, there have been multiple confirmed, individual cases in 2025 where the spouses of U.S. military members and veterans were detained by immigration authorities, often during routine check-ins or green card appointments.
These cases have sparked outrage from the public and lawmakers, particularly due to a 2025 policy change that ended a previous practice of granting deference to military families in immigration enforcement decisions.

Notable cases include:
-- Paola Clouatre, the wife of Marine veteran Adrian Clouatre, who was detained in May 2025 during a green card interview in New Orleans. She was later released after two months in custody.
-- The wife of an active-duty Coast Guardsman, who was arrested over an expired visa while the couple was moving into military housing.
-- Juana McIntosh, the wife of a deployed U.S. military worker, who was detained in Atlanta.

These cases are individual incidents and do not support the claim of 6,600 arrests of veteran wives.

orangecrush

(27,660 posts)
12. Your redirection of priorities is... interesting.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 06:39 PM
Nov 13

"How many military spouses are immigrants?
“So we derived the total of military (active and reserves) married to people with inadmissibility-type immigration issues by taking the total (1 million), multiplying by the national percentage of foreign-born (6.3 percent, so 63,000 current U.S. military are married to immigrants), and then the 25 percent of the total. which have problems with immigration law: 15,750. Of that, Pew’s data indicates 75 percent are from sources characterized by entry without inspection and similar issues, that would be about 11,800,” American Families United President Randall Emery said.


https://www.workingimmigrants.com/2018/08/military-spouses-vulnerable-to-deportation/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CSo%20we%20derived%20the%20total,25%20percent%20of%20the%20total

pat_k

(12,532 posts)
7. 6,600 refers to non-citizen parents of U.S. citizen children.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 06:17 PM
Nov 13

As appalling as 6,600 veterans' wives would be, this is somehow worse. They are taking people away from their children INTENTIONALLY, without any regard for the equities involved that any court would take into consideration if they were afforded due process.

ancianita

(42,650 posts)
13. Sure we know ICE is evil, but not this way, okay? Maybe consider deleting this. It's just not accurate.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 06:40 PM
Nov 13

orangecrush

(27,660 posts)
15. Kyle Kulinski is a trusted source for me.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 06:43 PM
Nov 13

If the exact figure is off, the story behind it is not.

orangecrush

(27,660 posts)
17. Respectfully...
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 06:54 PM
Nov 13

Trump’s immigration agenda is now sweeping up military families

The U.S. has long given extra consideration in immigration enforcement for noncitizens related to service members and veterans. But as stories about Immigration and Customs Enforcement detaining military family members garner more public attention, some members of Congress and outside groups are worried that the administration’s crackdown will take a toll on current military members’ ability to do their job and on the military’s ability to recruit.

Rep. Salud Carbajal, a California Democrat and a Marine Corps veteran with twomilitary bases in his district, said the administration’s approach “absolutely” threatens the U.S. armed forces’ morale and recruitment efforts.

“This will certainly weigh on the minds of many of these service members, let alone those that might be inclined to serve,” Carbajal told NOTUS, pointing to a FWD.us estimate that as many as 80,000 undocumented spouses and parents of active-duty personnel and veterans are living in the U.S.

The Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services did not comment for this article.

https://timesofsandiego.com/military/2025/07/01/trumps-immigration-agenda-sweeping-up-military-families/

Trying to bring awareness to the issue, and actually seeing a Marine veteran feeding his baby whose breast feeding mother was ripped away by these pigs outweighs a numerical inaccuracy.



WhiskeyGrinder

(26,003 posts)
20. Abolish ICE! AND Kyle Kulinski is an absolute piece of shit. You can do better than this.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 07:10 PM
Nov 13

Last edited Thu Nov 13, 2025, 09:37 PM - Edit history (1)

orangecrush

(27,660 posts)
22. What is the pos statement based on?
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 09:22 PM
Nov 13

Perhaps I missed something.

From wiki -

"Kyle Edward Kulinski (born January 31, 1988) is an American left-wing[5] political commentator and media host. He is the host and producer of The Kyle Kulinski Show on his YouTube channel Secular Talk, co-host on Kyle & Corin on the YouTube channel Corin's WORLD, and co-host with his wife Krystal Ball on the progressive podcast Krystal Kyle & Friends.[6] A self-described social democrat, Kulinski is a co-founder of Justice Democrats, a progressive political action committee founded on the principles that the candidates it endorses must refuse donations from corporate PACs.[7]

I see no controversy section or anything to suggest he is a POS, though corporatists may feel that way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Kulinski

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