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Trump Is Deporting Thousands Of Veterans And Only Democrats Are Trying To Stop Him
By Jason Easley on Mon, Mar 13th, 2017 at 4:18 pm
A freshman Democratic congressman is looking for Republican colleagues who will step up and help the thousands of veterans that President Donald Trump has deported.
U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) is looking for Republicans in the House who will help him co-author legislation to help the thousands of American veterans that Donald Trump has deported.
Rep. Gonzalez told the Rio Grande Guardian:
These are folks who have never had any legal trouble in their life. They were discharged honorably. They get into a little trouble and they are deported.
Gonzalez said that 1,400 honorably discharged vets had been deported to Mexico and Central America.
Prior to Trump, the Deported Veterans Support House had documented 301 veteran deportations for criminal offenses. Since coming into office less than two months ago, Trump has added thousands of vets to that total. The Trump administration has apparently expanded the criteria for deporting a veteran.
Veterans who were discharged honorably, and have not committed a crime, should not be deported. If a person risks their life to defend this country, they should be allowed to stay providing that they dont break the law.
What Trump is doing is wrong. Whats even worse is that House Republicans are too afraid to stand up to their president.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I know a lot of veterans groups take a very conservative stance, but here's a President who has maligned prisoners of war, veterans who need treatment when they come back from war, and now is using treatment records from the VA to target honorably discharged veterans for deportation who haven't committed any crimes.
Is that really the commander-in-chief you want, veterans? Maybe that Purple Heart one of you gave him qualifies him for your service and unwavering loyalty.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,699 posts)K&R
How do we stop these deportations?
Charles Bukowski
(1,132 posts)For starters.
This is barely getting any coverage. Soulless KellyAnne's microwave bullshit received way more press, for example.
democrank
(11,104 posts)superpatriotman
(6,252 posts)Better chance of Christ returning to Earth this evening.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Here Is the ACLU's 7-Point Plan of Action to Take on the Trump Administration
https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/here-aclus-7-point-plan-action-take-trump-administration
Maraya1969
(22,497 posts)I really don't understand. Seriously Please explain.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Many of them obtained citizenship after getting back to the US. They are supposed to get processed faster because of their service.
I'm wondering why these people fell through the cracks. My guess is they had a bad (possibly violent or threatened violence) ptsd episode and were ignored.