Editor’s note: The Adrian Claut spoke about his wife’s custody in the video above June 23, when she was still being held.
Baton Roose, La. – A An Marine Corps experienced and mother of two After being detained in May, it was released from ice custody on Monday that she says she was a regular immigration office visit, she and her husband told CBS News.
In a 25 -year -old phone interview on Thursday, I said in a phone interview, “I feel like a mother again, because at some points, I was feeling guilty, as I failed my children, because I was, I was, without you,” 25 -year -old Paola Claout said in a phone interview on Thursday.
Asked how she feels again with her husband and children, she said, “It feels good – it is good to come back with my family and my children.”
She only gave birth to her second child and was still breastfeeding on 27 May.
He was taken to an ice detention facility in Northern Louisiana, about four hours from his baton Roose house. Her husband will run eight hours round-trip each week to travel with Adrian Claut, her baby daughter and 2-year-old son.
“It was very difficult,” said Paola. “They gave me a pump so that I could pump milk and continue the production of milk when the child was able to give it.”
The 26 -year -old Adrian Claut served as an intelligence analyst in Marine Corps for five years. He said that his wife was kept in handcuffs in the lobby of an immigration enforcement field office in New Orleans, after wrapping a meeting with an employee about her green card application with an employee of US citizenship and immigration services.
Adrian Claut via AP 
“I was angry,” he asked about the arrest in an interview with CBS News in June. “I felt betrayal. They told us that we had passed the interview. … They knew that I was an experienced, they knew that my wife knew that my wife was breastfeeding our 9-week daughter, they knew that we had two children. … I cried the whole way for my car after leaving the building.”
Asked about the terms experienced during their time within the detention facility, Paola said, “It is difficult to be there, because they have a lot of rules. They are very strict. So it is very, very, difficult to be there.”
But this week, Adrian said that he finally received the call he expected –
“He called me with a CPO [officer’s] The phone, like one of the ice agent’s phone, said, “He said.
Paola said that she did not meet anyone else detained inside the facility who had a member of a military family or who was still breastfeeding.
The couple met when he was in service in California, and married in 2024.
Adrian says his wife now wears a monitor on her ankle, as part of the release position on an identity bond, and to check with an ice parole officer every two weeks. The couple had such an appointment on Thursday morning.
Paola said about a meeting with the parole officer handed over to his case, “It was good to meet him this morning.” He is a good person. “
Paola says that when he was a child, he and his mother came to America from Mexico, but his mother left her when she was still a teenager, making Paola homeless. He said that he did not talk to his mother in years. It was not till the spring that she learned that her mother had left the 2018 immigration hearing, and she says that she had a “no idea” the federal government as a result a resulting order against both.
Edrian said, “There was no way to know about the order to remove.”
Adrian said he felt that he was going through the appropriate channels to get a green card for Paola after his marriage, and the process had gone smoothly earlier.
Instead, Paola became one of the thousands of people and got into custody and had to face exile. Trump administration push For immigration officers to arrest 3,000 people a day. By June 27, Arrest with snow President Trump’s second term reached 109,000 – an increase of about 120% from the same time period under President Biden in 2024 – according to a CBS news analysis of government figures. Most of those arrests occur in border and southern states, showing figures.
After its release, Adrian says that the family is still a long road. First, he says that they are trying to dismiss the exile order. They will then try to achieve a position called “parole in place”, which helps the immediate family members of military service members in a more streamlined passage to get a green card.
On June 9, US citizenship and immigration services Posted Regarding the case on social media, writing that when Paola Cloutre “was caught by @CBP and ordered by a judge in 2018, he selected the order in the US after 7 years to convince and stay in the US, he was another bad idea, he was re -implemented for a green card.
Experts of the immigration law say that new federal priorities to detain immigrants with pending exile orders are taking more priority than before for military families. According to the federal memorandum, the Trump administration has created Any non-citizen Priority for arrest with pending exile.
During his wife’s months in custody, the Adrian sent letters to the elected officials by arguing with them – even two letters to President Trump. He says that this was Louisiana Republican Sen John Kennedy’s office employee who advocated and advocated his wife’s case. CBS News has reached Kennedy’s office for comments.
“I am ecstasy, I am very grateful to my lawyer, John Kennedy’s office and the community for all support,” said Adrian.
Paola echoed those feelings of praise.
“I feel happy, grateful,” she said. “Thanks to the senator spending time with my husband. Thanks to the community.”
