Veteran fights to prevent wife's deportation: "I'm begging my own country"
Retired staff sergeant Wilmer Trujillo, who served roughly 20 years in the U.S. Army and the Texas National Guard, is asking ICE to release his wife of six years.
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Retired staff sergeant Wilmer Trujillo, who served roughly 20 years in the U.S. Army and the Texas National Guard, is asking ICE to release his wife of six years.
Retired Staff Sgt. Wilmer Trujillo, an American citizen who served in the U.S. Army and the Texas National Guard for almost 20 years, is desperately urging ICE to release his wife, who has no criminal record. The Department of Homeland Security cited a 20-year-old deportation order in her arrest as she faces deportation to Honduras. CBS News' Camilo Montoya-Galvez reports.
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