These veterans from Texas were deported. They say they deserve a second chance.

[TexasTowelie]

By Julián Aguilar, Texas Tribune


CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — On Memorial Day on the Texas-Mexico border, Michael Evans, who served four years in the U.S. Marine Corps, was one of several veterans who helped set up a public display to honor fallen soldiers who have served in America's military.

Later that same day, Lorenzo Nuñez, a Mexican national, stood at attention and paid tribute to those men and women in a minute-long salute to the flags of the U.S. and the various branches of the armed forces.

Those actions sound similar to several that played out across the country earlier this week, but for one exception: Evans and Nuñez are the same person. And the 40-year-old man was marking the holiday in Mexico after being deported in 2009, despite his military service.

"My birth name is Lorenzo Nuñez Fernandez. It sounds like a mariachi name," Evans said with a chuckle from Ciudad Juárez's Chamizal Park, less than a city block from the international port of entry at El Paso. His name changed after he was adopted by an American family in 1984, and he was discharged in 2000 before the second Gulf War.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2018/06/01/texas-veterans-immigration-deportation-military/

[TimeSnowDemos]

1. Another reason

For immigrants to avoid US military service. Americans just don't care - at least the people in power - and all you're doing is risking your life in the service of harm to others - and the benifts are at best random and shifting.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. It used to be that military service was encouraged as a route to citizenship.

Perhaps the adopting parents were negligent in not obtaining citizenship for him while he was a child.