US Immigration Detains Wife of Honduran Military Veteran

Published on Honduras Daily · Jun 17, 2026 · Originally reported June 17, 2026 by HCH

Arelys Barahona-Martínez, the wife of a Honduran armed forces veteran, was arrested by US immigration authorities on June 10 during a routine check-in in Texas and transferred to ICE detention, separating the family.

An auto-translated English version isn’t available for HCH, so this opens the original in Spanish. Honduras Daily curates and summarizes; the reporting is theirs.

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