| US Military Veterans Deported to Mexico for Crimes Are Banished for Life Angela Kocherga - KVUE News | |
| go to original January 18, 2014 |
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CIUDAD JUAREZ - About 35,000 non-citizens are in the U.S. military, but some of those who served proudly have been deported to Mexico and other countries because they broke the law.
... No government agency tracks the number of veterans deported, but the organization Banished Veterans estimates at least 4,250 non-citizens who served in the U.S. military have been deported since 1996.
... Veterans can return to U.S. soil in a coffin. Those who are honorably discharged are entitled to a military burial in the United States.
Many veterans now living in Mexico choose border cities so they can be close to their families in the United States.
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