ICE releases wife of US soldier and Afghanistan veteran from detention

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has released the wife of a US Army sergeant and Afghanistan veteran from detention, her lawyer confirmed to the BBC. Deisy Rivera Ortega, who came to the US from El Salvador, was arrested on 14 April when she and her husband, Sgt Jose Serrano, went in for a scheduled immigration appointment in El Paso, Texas. Serrano, who has served in the military for nearly 28 years, told the BBC that his wife's detention had left him distraught. "We celebrate her release," Matthew James Kozik, who represented Rivera Ortega in her federal detention case, said in a statement. In a video he shared with CBS News, Serrano can be seen driving home with his wife in the passengers' seat. "Deisy is out of the detention facility and we're going home today," he said. Rivera Ortega has been released with stipulations that included "a GPS tracking device, mandatory home visits, and ICE office check-ins," DHS said in a statement. "She will receive full due process," DHS said. At the time of her arrest, Serrano and Rivera Ortega were applying for a programme called parole-in-place, which allows military spouses to remain in the US while their immigration cases move forwar