An immigration officer processed deportations for 20 years. Now he fears his own, after his Mexican

[mfcorey1]

After nearly 20 years of working as an immigration officer for the US Customs and Border Protection agency, Raul Rodriguez knew a lot about deportation - he processed them. What he didn't know was that he would soon fear deportation himself.

When Rodriguez - who has lived in the US for almost 50 years and served with the US Navy for five separate deployments - started the process of helping his brother emigrate from Mexico to the US, he began submitting his own citizenship paperwork along with his brother's to US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

Then, he got a call from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG): they had found a birth certificate for Rodriguez that showed he was born in Mexico, KRGV News reports.

Rodriguez said had never seen the birth certificate before, but once the OIG began a criminal investigation into whether his brother's immigration application had been falsified on Rodriguez's part, his father admitted that he actually had been born in Mexico.

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[abqtommy]

1. I've always thought that any person who served in the U.S. armed forces got automatic

citizenship. I understand that immigration policies have been unnecessarily corrupted but give me a break! It's really important that this gets fixed!

[dewsgirl]

2. They are deporting those that have served each and everyday.

It definitely should be that you receive automatic citizenship. But with this administration, the cruelty is the point.

[Igel]

3. No, they don't.

They get expedited review and preferences applied so they don't have to spend long on the wait list, but they have to apply. Under Obama, the process was even more expedited; under Trump, the additional fast-tracking was rolled back.