U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained the parents of a U.S. Marine, he says, first at Camp Pendleton, releasing them on ankle monitors and directing them to check in with the agency, where they detained them again just a few days later.

Steve Rios of Oceanside said he enlisted because of his parents, Esteban Rios and Luisa Rodriguez. He said they came to the U.S. from Mexico more than 30 years ago and have washed cars and cleaned houses from sun-up to sundown for his whole life.

“It was just making them proud, right? I’ve seen all the struggles they’ve gone through,” Steve said. “The least I could do, right, and serve this country and try to, you know, put some time in. I don't think amounts to what they've done.”

Steve and his parents were headed to pick up his young

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