U.S. Army Reserve Black Hawk pilot Chris Busby, 28, and Stephanie Kenny-Velasquez, 25, went to an Austin courthouse to get their marriage certificate on Dec. 3.

Roughly 48 hours later, Velasquez entered a Houston Immigration and Customs Enforcement office for a routine check-in and never emerged, Busby said. …

Velasquez came to the United States in 2021 hoping to start a new life far from the violence and political instability of her native Venezuela. She does not have a criminal record and presented herself to immigration officials in Miami when she arrived in the country.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260121120716/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/army-reservist-wife-venezuelan-asylum-detained-weeks-rcna254462

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    After 31 days, you’re not awol. The military lists you as a deserter, and now ICE is really looking for you. You get stopped by the police for even the most minor traffic infraction, you’re going to Leavenworth for a tenner at least.

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      eh, not really unless you commit a crime. the military as a whole just exists as a works program really.

      if you come back or get caught up somewhere, they just bring you back to your unit and put you on restriction till your time is up (strictness depending on your unit’s command)

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      Haha no, we had a boot go out for a pack of smokes and they picked him up 3 months later in a hotel in Palm Springs with two hookers. Fucker was back in morning formation with an NJP the next morning.

      They spend a metric fuck ton on how to train you to do your job. They are going to get their investment back.

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        Haha nah that’s just a booter on vacation lol. But that’s at the CO’s discretion, but three months is nothing lmao

        But even COs have a time limit which to be lenient. Had a dude jump over the side of the carrier and deserted for a year. Voluntarily returned and did a month in the carrier’s brig. Deserted again and got sent to a shore brig for five years and DD’d. No matter the branch, there’s a depreciation on the fuckton invested until it’s brig time lmao

        Guy we’re talking about doesn’t sound like he’s just gonna take some leave and mosey on back, nor does he seem the type to give all that much of a fuck about the inherent monetary value of their training lmao after long enough, the value is lost and then it’s brig time for some years and a double d.

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          Originally you said

          After 31 days, you’re not awol. The military lists you as a deserter

          And I said that 31 days is nothing, to which you responded

          But that’s at the CO’s discretion, but three months is nothing lmao

          So which is it? I was responding to your original claim that after 31 days ICE will hunt you down and give you ten years. Which is a completely silly claim on its own, the US Marshals are in charge of finding federal fugitives.

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            To the best of my knowledge, all personnel get dropped from their unit rolls after thirty days and then get listed as deserters.

            Based on the captain’s masts of the sailors who went UA from the commands I was stationed at, time away doesn’t seem to matter as much as intent to stay gone from service, avoiding hazardous duty or some contract obligation.

            I don’t see scared booters running as really counting in the same manner as the commenter we’re talking about, especially where they declare intent to be gone and staying gone until the wife’s free (and as they said, even then they might stay gone.)

            Having not been an SEA nor having anything to do with JAG or MPs, I can’t say with certainty when a naval command (let alone the Army or any other branch, ftm) will notify the police as to the sm’s status as desertion.

            Again, given the new nature of booters and their purpose for desertion, they’re probably going to get leniency based on their non-PO/NCO status, but that may not always be so. CO’s discretion applies here.

            In short: your booter? You’re right, very probably not. A booter’s who’s made it clear that LE’s gonna have to drag ‘em back? Or commenter? After just (or possibly even less than) 31 days? If the courts martial determines based on presented evidence that ten years can be awarded and feels justified in making it happen, then yes, a tenner after (or even under) just 31 days.

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              Thats a lot of text that didnt actually respond to my comment.

              Your original statement was that ICE will snatch you up after 31 days of being awol.

              Let’s clarify a couple things. You are awol the second you dont show up to formation. Article 85 is desertion, the UCMJ article that you can get charged with. Theres no arbitrary amount of days, the second you’re awol you could be charged with desertion. Read the Article and tell me if you see a time.

              You also completely ignored the ICE comment. Your factually incorrect and fear mongering comments are unwelcome.

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      People will keep watching cases like this.

      Every time these Nazis abuse law abiding people, a few more law abiding people start looking for alternatives.

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      Just because it’s illegal to trump and his goons doesnt mean it’s morally just. I’m just saying 🤷🏻‍♂️

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        Oh I’m not speaking to the morality of deserting, only that it would make your situation immensely worse.

        Your wife’s already locked up, the military knows who she is, and now you’ve deserted. They toss your wife into solitary (or worse) and forget about her until you decide she shouldn’t suffer, and turn yourself in. You probably will, and now you’ve just bought both of you a one-way trip to whatever hellhole the regime decides to send you both to.

        All of which could’ve probably been avoided by not deserting. js

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          You think his wife is t already getting the worst treatment in there? She’s a pretty girl and ICE are invel goons. That poor girl. Welcome to the new America, act accordingly.

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            However bad she has it, they can absolutely make it worse if they decide to

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              You are making a lot of assumptions with that though. Who’s to say it isn’t already as bad as it can be for her? Literally no one knows, how cool is that?!