Event: US

The wife of an active-duty US soldier was deported on Monday to her native Honduras, according to her family and the federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS).Cristy Maryori Villafranca-Trejo is at least the seventh spouse or parent of an active-duty US soldier to be deported under the immigration crackdown during Donald Trump’s second presidency.The Associated Press has found more than 50 cases in which immediate family members of US troops were placed in federal immigration detention after the Trump administration rolled back protections for military families. In some instances, the DHS has released military spouses after media attention and advocacy by congressional leaders.Villafranca-Trejo’s husband, army Sgt Hedar Leonel Turcios Juarez, said he has been struggling to manage his military duties since she was detained on 11 July outside a Walmart near Fort Bliss, Texas, where he is stationed. Since then, he’s had to care for their six-year-old daughter without his wife’s help. Instead of training in the mornings, he takes his daughter to first grade – and he said he has already had to postpone a planned assignment at another base.“I don’t know if I will be able to continue with this,” Turcios Juarez said of his army career. “I have to make a plan to make sure I can still fulfill my military responsibilities – but also take care of my family.”The DHS confirmed Villafranca-Trejo’s deportation, saying she had “received due process”.Villafranca-Trejo, who has no known criminal record and entered the US in 2016 at age 18, was issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge in 2017 after failing to appear at a hearing, according to the DHS. Villafranca-Trejo’s husband said she had not received a notice for the hearing she missed and did not realize she had been ordered deported until they went to apply…