U.S. military veterans deported to Mexico say they want to come back home
Source: MSN/LA Times
Deported U.S. military veterans told members of a U.S. congressional delegation visiting Tijuana on Saturday that they had paid dearly for their crimes, and wanted to come home.
"I committed a crime and I accept it," said Eduardo Agustin Garcia, 59, a former U.S. Navy airman who grew up in Oxnard but was deported to Mexico in 1999 after serving a four-year sentence on a drug charge.
Garcia, who now works in a call center in Tijuana, was among a dozen deported veterans who spoke briefly to members of the U.S. House of Representatives, all Democrats on the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
The deported veterans told of the pride they had felt in the U.S. armed services, some serving in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. They talked about how they missed their families in the United States and needed access to Veterans Affairs services. "I just want to go home," they repeatedly said.
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madokie
(51,076 posts)for crying out loud they are Americans proven by their service to our country.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)ATL Ebony
(1,097 posts)IronLionZion
(45,269 posts)since Germany refused to take Trump's grandfather Frederick back. And I'm sure Scotland doesn't want them either.
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)K/R
furtheradu
(1,865 posts)Tonight is not the night, though, I am too emotional.
But, YEAH, this is a big freakin deal.
Skittles
(152,967 posts)fuck Trump, the draft-dodging chicken hawk piece of SHIT