Father wearing 'Proud dad of a U.S. Marine' shirt arrested by ICE agents while visiting pregnant daughter

[Eugene]

Source: The Independent

Father wearing ‘Proud dad of a U.S. Marine’ shirt arrested by ICE agents while visiting pregnant daughter

Steve Rios says his father Esteban and mother Luisa were visiting Camp Pendelton in California in late September when they were unexpectedly detained

Joe Sommerlad
Monday 13 October 2025 14:43 BST

A U.S. Marine has revealed that his parents were detained by ICE agents during a recent visit to Camp Pendleton in California, after which they were fitted with ankle monitors and ordered to report back to the agency, whereupon they were held again, and his father was deported.

Marine Steve Rios told NBC News’s San Diego affiliate that his parents, Esteban Rios and Luisa Rodriguez, had arrived at Pendleton in Oceanside on Sunday, September 28, to take his pregnant younger sister, Ashley, and her husband, also a Marine, out to breakfast, as they had done frequently for several months.

This time, they were stopped at the gate by ICE and taken to a downtown detention center.

Subsequently released wearing ankle tags, the couple returned as requested to the ICE facility on Thursday, October 2, only to be detained again, despite Esteban Rios' wearing a red shirt and white hat that both said “Proud dad of a U.S. Marine,” according to his son.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-marines-father-deported-camp-pendleton-b2844375.html

Alternate link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/father-wearing-proud-dad-u-134329164.html

[Norrrm]

1. It is much safer and easier to arrest these people than the violent criminals of MS13.

The numbers are larger as well.