Diagnosed with PTSD ...served two tours in Afghanistan and pleaded guilty for cocaine conviction and is a resident and VETERAN… Perez may likely get deported.
Judge reviewing the case and Tammy Duckworth has written a letter on his behalf.
This has got to stop !!!!!
I know many veterans who have gotten into trouble and most of the time it was drug related but managed to become even activists for good.
I wonder if The Donald is cracking down on so much of this his way because the Mexican Cartel has interfered with his own Mafia connections. I do not condone this veteran’s activity but he fought for America and was willing to take a bullet. Now America or a so called America cannot say, “ We owe you a place here with your family”?
There was a lot of action at that time," said Perez, 38, a Mexican-born legal permanent resident of the U.S. and a decorated Army veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan. "I didn't think I was coming back. Just seeing the 50 stars and stripes did something to my skin. It was incredible, ecstasy, nirvana."
Now, after returning to the country he's called home for 30 years, Perez faces possible deportation to Mexico following a felony drug conviction.
Perez is one of many veterans, some of whom sustained injuries and emotional trauma during combat, who have been decorated for service, then confronted with the possibility of deportation after committing a crime. As with many others, Perez mistakenly thought he became a U.S. citizen when he took an oath to protect the nation. He discovered that was not the case when he was summoned to immigration court shortly before his release from a state penitentiary, where he had served seven years for handing over a bag of cocaine to an undercover police officer.
You might want to stand up before you are rounded up because if you think this junk is just about Hispanics and Muslims… you are living in fantasy. They will come for dissenters of any kind next.