Wife of Marine Corps veteran released from ICE custody after advocacy from GOP Senator's office

Alternate AP headline: Louisiana GOP senator’s office asked ICE to release Marine Corps veteran’s wife

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Source: Associated Press

Wife of Marine Corps veteran released from ICE custody after advocacy from GOP Senator's office

JACK BROOK
Tue, July 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM EDT
4 min read

A Marine Corps veteran's wife has been released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention following advocacy from Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican who backs President Donald Trump's hardline immigration crackdown.

Until this week, Mexican national Paola Clouatre had been one of tens of thousands of people in ICE custody as the Trump administration continues to press immigration officers to arrest 3,000 people a day suspected of being in the U.S. illegally.

Emails reviewed by The Associated Press show that Kennedy's office said Friday that it put in a request for the Department of Homeland Security to release her after a judge halted her deportation order earlier that week. By Monday, she was out of a remote ICE detention center in north Louisiana and home in Baton Rouge with her veteran husband Adrian Clouatre and their two young children.

Kennedy’s constituent services representative, Christy Tate, congratulated Adrian Clouatre on his wife's release and thanked him for his military service. “I am so happy for you and your family,” Tate wrote in an email to Adrian Clouatre. “God is truly great!”

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