BOWLING GREEN, Mo. - A Missouri veteran says his wife is being unfairly targeted for deportation.

She's lived in the U.S. legally since childhood, but after a trip overseas, she was arrested at the airport and locked up in a Kentucky jail.

“She's held so many other people; now she stuck jail for a 25-dollar check,” said Jim Brown, the husband of Donna Hughes-Brown. “It's just crazy to think that you are going to take a woman who has spent her entire life having children and grandchildren.”

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On their nine-acre farm in Missouri, veteran Jim tends to the horses and says every day feels longer without his wife by his side. What started as a routine trip home from Ireland this summer ended in heartbreak at O'Hare Airport.

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