Overview

• Steve Rios says his parents were stopped at the base gate on Sept. 28 while picking up his pregnant sister and her Marine husband.
• The couple was released hours later with ankle monitors, then detained at a required ICE check-in days afterward.
• Rios says they were held in a federal building and transferred to the Otay Mesa Detention Center before his father was deported.
• The mother’s current status remains unconfirmed in public reporting.
• The family describes the parents as longtime residents from Mexico with no criminal record who had pending applications, and DHS offered only a general statement on enforcement without case-specific details.