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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 trouble with the law—a common occurrence for veterans coming home from war. But because they weren’t n...

/ 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. They came to the U.S. as children with their families and as legal permanent residents. As adults,...