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http://time.com/5215153/army-veteran-deported-tammy-duckworth/

U.S. Army veteran Miguel Perez Jr. was deported to Mexico Friday, despite having served two tours in Afghanistan that reportedly left him with post-traumatic stress disorder, CNN reports.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) escorted Perez, 39, across the US-Mexico border and handed him over to Mexican authorities after a felony drug charge prevented him from obtaining U.S. citizenship.

In 2010, Perez was convicted on a cocaine charge, had his green card revoked and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. After serving half his sentence, he was transferred to an immigration detention center.

Perez had lived in the U.S. legally with permanent residence status since he was 11, according to a statement released by the office of Ill. Senator Tammy Duckworth. Perez’s parents and children are citizens, it said.

“This is a deplorable way to treat a veteran who risked his life in combat for our nation,” Duckworth said.

Perez’ family and supporters had lobbied for the veteran to be able to stay in the country in return for his years of service, and asked that he receive treatment for substance abuse that he has attributed to his experiences in Afghanistan.

After his service, Perez was diagnosed at a military hospital with PTSD, as well as a possible brain injury.

ICE spokesperson Nicole Alberico told NBC that the agency has the right to exercise “prosecutorial discretion” including with members of the U.S. armed forces who do not automatically obtain citizenship.

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37 minutes ago, IDWAF said:

Nice post, Mango, but what’s your take on the matter?

1. Cocaine possession does not strike me as a crime of moral terpitude. Who did he intend to harm? 

2. Why couldn't some latitude be given to a combat veteran?

3.How will this man get the medical services he is entitled to as a vet?

 

 

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8 hours ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

1. Cocaine possession does not strike me as a crime of moral terpitude. Who did he intend to harm? 

2. Why couldn't some latitude be given to a combat veteran?

3.How will this man get the medical services he is entitled to as a vet?

 

 

Do we know if the charge was simply for possession?  I did not see that detail in the article.  I agree, there should be some consideration for a veteran, but I think we need more of the story.

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1 hour ago, Bill & Katya said:

Do we know if the charge was simply for possession?  I did not see that detail in the article.  I agree, there should be some consideration for a veteran, but I think we need more of the story.

I agree there might be more than possession.

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After his service, Perez was diagnosed at a military hospital with PTSD, as well as a possible brain injury.

given this, i don't need to know any more. he absolutely should not have been deported.

disgusting.

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2 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

Do we know if the charge was simply for possession?  I did not see that detail in the article.  I agree, there should be some consideration for a veteran, but I think we need more of the story.

 

46 minutes ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

I agree there might be more than possession.

A guy with PTSD... I think not. They have seen a link between substance abuse and PTSD so I think it most likely was for personal use and nothing else. 





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Perez was convicted in 2010 of manufacturing or delivering more than two pounds of cocaine in Cook County, Illinois, and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.


 

Nothing there about using, just making and delivering.

 

 

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In an interview with the Chicago Tribune this year, Perez said that after his service, he had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. He also may have had a traumatic brain injury.

PTSD... one of the most mis-diagnosed conditions in the past decade or two.  “May have had a TBI.”  That’s pretty vague, and not a medical diagnosis.

 

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Perez started hanging out with an old friend who gave him free drugs and alcohol, he told the paper, and while he was hanging out with that friend, he delivered a laptop case with cocaine to an undercover officer.

So perhaps he was using.

 

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He told the Tribune that he mistakenly believed his military service granted him citizenship.

 

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5 minutes ago, Unidentified said:

 

A guy with PTSD... I think not. They have seen a link between substance abuse and PTSD so I think it most likely was for personal use and nothing else. 

Can't say I am familiar with all the sentencing guidelines for Illinois, but 15 years for possession seems excessive.  According to this story, he had 4.4 pounds of it and was giving it to an undercover officer, so I assume they got him for trafficking.

 

https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/2018/03/26/army-veteran-in-us-since-age-8-deported-after-prison-stint/

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U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth has been one of Perez’s supporters. On Friday, she wrote a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen asking her to halt Perez’s deportation and to personally review the case. Duckworth said she received no response.

 

At the very least, Miguel should have been able to exhaust all of his legal options before being rushed out of the country under a shroud of secrecy,” Duckworth said Saturday.

 

Hardly rushed... he was convicted in 2008, imprisoned 2010, and deported in 2018.

 

 

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Miguel Perez Jr. arrived in the U.S. with his family when he was 8 years old, the network reported. He enlisted in the Army in 2001 and served in Afghanistan from Oct. 2002 to April 2003 and May 2003 to Oct. 2003.

Pretty much impossible (but more likely near the front of the conflict than the end).  One cannot serve two consecutive tours in combat with a month break in between, period.  

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/372289-us-veteran-who-served-in-afghanistan-could-be-deported-report

 

(My guess is there was a single deployment, and the media messed this part up.  No self-respecting soldier would attempt an obvious lie like this.)

 

Also read that he was given a general discharge for a drug infraction while in the army in 2004.

As to the question of how he will “receive medical services he is entitled to”, I doubt that he is eligible for any.  He served less than 4 years.  He probably got the GI Bill, but that may have been stripped with the drug conviction, not sure.  Outside of that, he would have had to had some serious injuries with a VA rating to get any kind of lifetime medical care.

 

He plead the (2 or 4 pounds of cocaine, have seen both amounts used)  down to 100 grams, otherwise his sentence would have been much worse.

 

He never applied for US citizenship until after he was ordered to be deported... something like 20 years after he was eligible to do so.  (Claims that he thought military service made him an automatic USC, which has never been true).  He came to the US in 1989, eligible to naturalize 1994, joined army 2001.

 

Various sources, ignored CNN and Fox, army times, as well as: http://connectingvets.com/articles/5-facts-about-deported-army-vet-set-record-straight 

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32 minutes ago, IDWAF said:

Hardly rushed... he was convicted in 2008, imprisoned 2010, and deported in 2018.

 

 

Pretty much impossible (but more likely near the front of the conflict than the end).  One cannot serve two consecutive tours in combat with a month break in between, period.  

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/372289-us-veteran-who-served-in-afghanistan-could-be-deported-report

 

(My guess is there was a single deployment, and the media messed this part up.  No self-respecting soldier would attempt an obvious lie like this.)

 

Also read that he was given a general discharge for a drug infraction while in the army in 2004.

As to the question of how he will “receive medical services he is entitled to”, I doubt that he is eligible for any.  He served less than 4 years.  He probably got the GI Bill, but that may have been stripped with the drug conviction, not sure.  Outside of that, he would have had to had some serious injuries with a VA rating to get any kind of lifetime medical care.

 

He plead the (2 or 4 pounds of cocaine, have seen both amounts used)  down to 100 grams, otherwise his sentence would have been much worse.

 

He never applied for US citizenship until after he was ordered to be deported... something like 20 years after he was eligible to do so.  (Claims that he thought military service made him an automatic USC, which has never been true).  He came to the US in 1989, eligible to naturalize 1994, joined army 2001.

 

Various sources, ignored CNN and Fox, army times, as well as: http://connectingvets.com/articles/5-facts-about-deported-army-vet-set-record-straight 

4.4 pounds is around 2 kilograms, that may be the confusion.  Regardless, he more than likely wasn’t giving it away to an undercover officer.

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