The federal government’s failure to help naturalize immigrants serving in the U.S. military has led to the deportation of untold numbers of veterans, all of whom were entitled to become citizens because of their service, according to a report released today by the ACLU of California. The report found that deported veterans were in the U.S. legally and sustained physical wounds and emotional trauma in conflicts as far back as the war in Vietnam. Once they returned from service, they were subject to draconian immigration laws that reclassified many minor offenses as deportable crimes, and were effectively banished from this country. Use your powers to bring these men and women home so they can be with their families and have access to Veterans Administration healthcare that they earned.
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