ICE removes soldier's wife from Brazil deportation flight

ICE removed a U.S. soldier’s wife, Maisa Lopes Eliaser, from a deportation flight to Brazil after officers on the plane received a phone call midflight, she told the Associated Press. Eliaser said ICE asked whether she wanted to continue to Brazil or return to the U.S.; she returned to Louisiana while other detainees were led off in Brazil. The AP reported earlier that she was among dozens of spouses or parents of U.S. troops detained amid changes under the Trump administration. Homeland Security oversees ICE, and it did not immediately comment. A statement from Sen. Mark Kelly said detaining military family members is “wrong.” ICE said Eliaser, 32, had a final removal order dated April 15 after overstaying a tourist visa used to enter in 2019.