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A deported U.S. Army veteran represented by the Veterans Legal Services Clinic has returned home and become a U.S. citizen.

An Army veteran born in Mexico and raised in Las Cruces becomes a citizen after legal troubles led to deportation and years of exile.

Lawmakers are aiming to advance legislation to streamline the process for granting citizenship to veterans and service members after federal officials called for improvements.

A 2019 government watchdog report found that ICE didn't know how many U.S. military veterans it had deported because of inconsistent record-keeping.

Decorated former soldier aids other vets sent back to Mexico

Families separated by the pandemic are planning joyful reunions when the Mexican-US border reopens on Monday, but not Martin Figueroa, who left his "mind and soul" behind when he was deported.

Ivan Ocon got into some trouble when he returned from Iraq and spent time in federal prison before he was sent back to Mexico.

People make mistakes all the time, but one mistake shouldn’t define the rest of your life; believes an Iraq war vet deported after a felony conviction.

Listen • 1:19 Mario Martinez, an Army veteran, faced deportation in 2017 after serving four years in California state prison. While serving in the Army in the 1980s, he was deployed to Germany as part of U.S. forces sent to guard the Berlin Wall. They came to the U.S. as children with their families and as legal permanent residents. As adults, they joined the military with the promise of a speedy path to citizenship, which never happened. After serving, they got in troubl...