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/ 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. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Deported Veterans Support House in Tijuana, Mx., have launched a campaign urging the Biden administration to bring home deported veterans — those who served in the U.S. military only to be later exiled from the country...

Deported Veterans to Biden: Bring Us Home! Jennifer Martinez-Medina, The Conversation © Provided by The Daily Beast U.S. Army/Courtesy Ivan Ocon/The Conversation Ivan Ocon thought he would be headed back to civilian life as a U.S. citizen after serving the U.S. Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Ocon, who was born in Mexico, came to the United States as a legal permanent resident in 1985 to reunite with his mother. He joined the Army in 1997, and his recruiter assured h...

Ivan Ocon thought he would be headed back to civilian life as a U.S. citizen after serving the U.S. Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Ocon, who was born in Mexico, came to the United States as a legal permanent resident in 1985 to reunite with his mother. He joined the Army in 1997, and his recruiter assured him that enlisting would make him a U.S. citizen. Ivan Ocon’s U.S. Army photo/ Ivan Ocon/U.S. Army, CC BY-ND When Ocon received orders of deployment to...