A Georgia grandfather and U.S. Army veteran has spent the last three months in immigration detention after what began as a simple traffic stop.

His case is unfolding as federal protections for non-citizen veterans have quietly been scaled back.

A traffic stop that changed everything

Godfrey Wade, a longtime Covington resident who came to the United States from Jamaica at 15, was pulled over in Conyers in September for failing to use a turn signal. Police discovered he was driving without a license and arrested him. ICE took Wade into custody shortly after.

His fiancée, April Watkins, recorded on her phone the moment he was taken away in handcuffs.

"He wasn't born in this country, and still, he loves this country enough that he signed up to serve it," Watkins said. "Fifty years later,

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