US veterans deported after they served
Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2012
US veterans deported after they served
By Cindy Carcamo | McClatchy-Tribune News Service
ROSARITO, Mexico — Keeping tabs on his U.S. citizenship application wasn't much of a priority for Marine Cpl. Rohan Coombs when he served in the Persian Gulf War.
The aircraft maintenance specialist had more pressing concerns: The safety of his comrades as bombs rained down and people died around him in the desert.
Coombs, who came to the U.S. legally from Jamaica as a child and enlisted in the Marine Corps at age 20, served six years in the military. Eventually, he settled in Tustin, Calif., and figured he was a U.S. citizen because he'd fought for his country.
He was wrong. Like hundreds of other men and women who served in the U.S. military, Coombs faces deportation and banishment from the country he went to war for after being arrested. In his case, he was arrested several times for possession for use or sale of marijuana.
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