She wasn't illegal to begin with. The young woman was here via legal refuge status. They legally married and because she married, the refuge status granted to her as a youth lapsed. That point makes not a lick of sense to me.

Were she someone who waded across the Rio Grande or walked across the deesrt to come here illegally, I'm sure I might take a harasher view, but our immigration laws are so hopelessly screwed up that the formerly legal wife of a legal US solider serving in combat for this country can concieveably be deported. I did a Google search on related news articles and there's dozens of these cases. WTF has our country come to?