ARMY SERGEANT’S WIFE DEPORTED TO HONDURAS AMID TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN ON MILITARY FAMILIES. (PHOTO).
Army sergeant’s wife deported to Honduras amid Trump administration’s immigration crackdown on military families The wife of an Army sergeant and mother of a 6-year-old was deported to Honduras Monday, as the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown increasingly affects spouses and parents of active-duty military personnel. Army Sgt. Hedar Leonel Turcios Juarez confirmed that his wife, Cristy Maryori Villafranca Trejo, had been deported. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained Villafranca outside a Walmart in July while the couple’s young daughter was present, according to her husband. Villafranca had left Honduras in 2016 because of violence, he said. Turcios Juarez came to the United States from Honduras in 2014 for similar reasons. After attending high school in the U.S., he joined the Army and became a U.S. citizen in 2024 following a nine-month deployment to the Middle East. He then began seeking citizenship for his wife, hoping his military service could help speed ...
Following a trip to Maiduguri at the center of the Boko Haram insurgency this week,USAID's Office for Foreign Disaster Assistance Director Jeremy Konyndyk announced $37 million in new funding to support additional humanitarian assistance for people affected by the conflict and severe food insecurity in Nigeria and throughout the Lake Chad Basin.At a press conference today wednesday at the Nigeria Emergency Management Agency,Konyndyk said the funding for assistance implemented by International NGO s and UN agencies brings the total USAID humanitarian support for the region to $318 million since last year.The United States is the single largest humanitarian donor to the region.''The United States is committed to supporting Nigeria to ease this humanitarian crisis,'' Konyndyk said,and help sustain this vulnerable population until they can resume livelihoods upended by conflict'''.Despite gradually improving security conditions,the humanitarian situation remains dire.Throughout the region,approximately 5 million people need emergency food assistance and 2.5 million people are displaced.''These issues are enormous,'' Muhammad Sani Sidi,director general of the Nif=geria Emergency Management Agency said,but added we are working toward a ''full recovery.'' including job skills training for the displaced.
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