Veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan could be deported

[phxspurfan]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/04/us/ice-possible-deportation-veteran/index.html

(CNN)Miguel Perez Jr. discovered that two tours of duty in Afghanistan with the US Army and an accompanying case of PTSD are no shield from the US immigration laws.

Because of a 2010 drug conviction, Perez, 39, sits in an ICE detention center in Kenosha, Wisconsin, awaiting possible deportation to Mexico -- a country he left more than three decades ago.
He said he fears deportation would do more than separate him from his family in the United States, including his two children born here. He thinks it could kill him.


Ok, ready, racist Trump supporters? Go...support the deportation of someone who volunteered to defend the flag you are so butthurt about rich black athletes not saluting on Sundays when half your party says you should be spending in church anyway. Try to hide your deep-seated racist feelings about Mexico (whose citizens built the 'Murican Ford you drive), while also obscuring the fact that your family were immigrants fleeing a Shithole Country once, and the closest you got to PTSD from defending the USA was shootin' dem machine guns on your Vegas trip bachelor party, or huntin' deer with your semi auto custom AR build with pretty pink camo spraypaint.

[Chris]

Moral of the story? Don't get a drug conviction and come here legally.

[AaronY]

Actual moral of the story is that guy's a better American than 99.9% of the fags we got over here

[spurraider21]

Probably an awful idea to produce and distribute cocaine when you have conditional permanent residency

[baseline bum]

Being some dickhead in the army shouldn't shield him from responsibility for being a drug trafficker. Deport his ass to Sinaloa, he'll find work there.

[Chucho]

LOL, this backfired on OP.

[boutons_deux]

All the stories I've seen about long-term legal residents being deported said deportee had committed some fairly serious shit but a long time ago. ICE goons' dragnet really digging deep and old but what about MS13?

[Chris]

All the stories I've seen about long-term legal residents being deported said deportee had committed some fairly serious shit but a long time ago. ICE goons' dragnet really digging deep and old but what about MS13?

This has to be a bot.

[Blake]

Probably an awful idea to produce and distribute cocaine when you have conditional permanent residency

There's that.

[Blake]

This has to be a bot.

That's rich

[monosylab1k]

First off, how does an illegal immigrant even get into the military? Seems like a major fuckup there.

Second, like eveyone else has said, don’t do illegal shit if you’re here illegally.

[Blake]

First off, how does an illegal immigrant even get into the military? Seems like a major fuckup there.

Second, like eveyone else has said, don’t do illegal shit if you’re here illegally.

He got here legally.

[spurraider21]

yeah, he was here legally, got his green card, but never applied for citizenship (which he was eligible to do since 1994). then committed an offense which got his green card revoked.

[Chris]

yeah, he was here legally, got his green card, but never applied for citizenship (which he was eligible to do since 1994). then committed an offense which got his green card revoked.

He was here illegally. Mono was correct. He may have originally gotten here legally, but he remained here illegally.

[spurraider21]

He was here illegally. Mono was correct. He may have originally gotten here legally, but he remained here illegally.
- he got here legally

- he got permanent residency in 1989

- he was eligible to apply for citizenship as of 1994 (though even without citizenship, he still had permanent legal residence)

- he enlisted in the army in 2001 (still a permanent legal resident)

- he was discharged in 2004 (still a permanent legal resident)

- in 2010 he was busted for cocaine production/distribution. this is considered a crime of "moral turpitude" which are the ones that are grounds for changing immigrant status. this allowed them to strip him of his permanent residence (because he never applied for citizenship. otherwise he'd be protected)

- deportation proceedings began while he was still serving his sentence for the 2010 conviction

so the only time he "remained here illegally" is while he was in custody serving his sentence. he was here 100% legally up until they stripped his green card after his conviction. he was never undocumented and hiding from the system or anything like that

[Chris]

- he got here legally

- he got permanent residency in 1989

- he was eligible to apply for citizenship as of 1994 (though even without citizenship, he still had permanent legal residence)

- he enlisted in the army in 2001 (still a permanent legal resident)

- he was discharged in 2004 (still a permanent legal resident)

- in 2010 he was busted for cocaine production/distribution. this is considered a crime of "moral turpitude" which are the ones that are grounds for changing immigrant status. this allowed them to strip him of his permanent residence (because he never applied for citizenship. otherwise he'd be protected)

- deportation proceedings began while he was still serving his sentence for the 2010 conviction

so the only time he "remained here illegally" is while he was in custody serving his sentence. he was here 100% legally up until they stripped his green card after his conviction. he was never undocumented and hiding from the system or anything like that

:tu

[spurraider21]

i mean, the system is kinda messed up in that somebody who is legally here, has permanent residence, and serves in the military can still be stripped of permanent residency because of a crime committed decades after being granted permanent residence.

notwithstanding that screwed up policy (imo), he should have applied for citizenship somewhere between 1994 and 2010. still feels harsh given the surrounding circumstances, but committing drug felony when you're just on a green card is asking for trouble.

but might not be the worst policy to grant citizenship to any permanent resident that serves in the military

[phxspurfan]

ok ok you win lol... deport his ass dilly dilly

[Blake]

Well the whole set up still sucks tho