Arizona Rep. Yassamin Ansari and nine other members of Congress are demanding federal authorities answer their concerns about the Trump administration’s deportation of military veterans.
In a letter to the secretary of Defense, the secretary of Veterans Affairs and the secretary of Homeland Security, Ansari demands to know the current number of veterans facing deportation, as well as the number of veterans who’ve already been deported since President Donald Trump took office in January.
It also asks the feds to detail what immigration case assistance and information is being offered to veterans swept up in Trump’s efforts to deport immigrants.
The letter cites estimates that 10,000 or more veterans have been deported so far.
Among those facing deportation is a two-tour Arizona army vet detained by ICE in January.
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Emmanuel Damas, 56, died Monday at Honor Health hospital in Scottsdale after complaining of a toothache in mid-February in ICE custody. -
Emmanuel Damas, 56, was in the process of seeking asylum after entering the U.S. in 2024 on a humanitarian parole program established under the Biden administration. -
ICE has released a 79-year-old Cuban woman from the Eloy Detention Center, after she spent nine months there. Julia Benitez suffers from dementia and was known inside the detention center as "la abuela," or the grandmother. -
Immigration and Customs Enforcement says agents arrested more than 20 people in a raid in Phoenix this week near 15th and Peoria avenues. -
President Donald Trump on Thursday fired his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and said he will nominate in her place Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin.
