They’re not citizens but they were willing to put their lives on the line for the U.S. And an estimated 3,000 U.S. veterans are either in deportation proceedings or being detained.
Jorge Rivas at Fusion has the story:
Hector Barajas joined the 82nd Airborne in
1995, he served as a paratrooper, jumping out of planes dozens of times
and taking on various missions on behalf of his country. But in 2004,
after being honorably discharged, the United States put him on a flight
that led to his biggest battle: being deported to Mexico, a country he
left before his fourth birthday.
Barajas, who had a green card, returned to
California after his discharge. A month later he began having trouble
with the law. He pled guilty to firing a weapon at a car that his friend
believed was following them. No one was wounded and Barajas maintains
he didn’t pull the trigger.
Had Barajas been a U.S. citizen, he would
have served three years in a state prison and that would have been the
end of it. But because he wasn’t, he was deported to Mexico a year
later. He was doubly punished.Read Full Story
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