US Detains 'Proud Dad' While Praising Military Service
When Esteban Hernandez, wearing a 'Proud dad of a U.S. Marine' shirt, was detained by ICE while visiting his pregnant daughter at Camp Pendleton, The Independent framed it as a shocking anomaly. But is it? The same government that deploys children of undocumented immigrants to its wars—'Dreamers' have repeatedly joined the military with promises of citizenship (Source: U.S. Army, 2021
announcements for MAVNI, though limited)—also maintains a vast, unforgiving detention and deportation apparatus. It's a system designed to extract labor and sacrifice, then discard those who don't fit a convenient narrative. So, a Marine’s father, who embodies the 'service and sacrifice' narrative, is still just another 'unauthorized' person to the state. The irony? We'll laud fallen soldiers from
immigrant families on CNN, then deport their grieving relatives with equal bureaucratic fervor. Selective outrage is, it seems, the most consistent US policy.