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When i was in the Air Force, people got citizenship for serving... How are they being deported?
by RustyConsul 5y ago
When i was in the Air Force, people got citizenship for serving... How are they being deported?
- skuhn 5y agoThis NYT article [1] has some quotes from Sen. Duckworth that outlines the problem as she sees it. One in particular: "People don’t even know that we are deporting veterans. I think most Americans assume that when somebody serves, they gain American citizenship. They don’t realize that we are actually deporting people who served honorably." [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/07/us/politics/veterans-deported-duckworth.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/07/us/politics/veterans-depo...
- treis 5y agoGenerally speaking they commit serious crimes before they complete the naturalization process.
- okareaman 5y ago> Under the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act, “aggravated felonies” are a basis for automatic deportation. Struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder and substance abuse put veterans at greater risk of incarceration than the general population. In 2017, nearly 28% of minority veterans – that’s 1,315,989 people – reported a service-connected disability, principally PTSD. I worked with citizen veterans who ended up in jail for crimes committed while distressed from PTSD. The VA treats these veterans. It's inhuman to deport them imho https://theconversation.com/deported-veterans-stranded-far-from-home-after-years-of-military-service-press-biden-to-bring-them-back-154320 https://theconversation.com/deported-veterans-stranded-far-f...