Deported Veterans: Banished for Committing Crimes After Serving in the US Military Kevin Sullivan - The Washington Post
go to original August 15, 2013

How many U.S. veterans are deported each year? No one knows, but a group of "banished veterans" in Mexico are trying to help. (KPBSSanDiego)

HERMOSILLO, Mexico — Milton Tepeyac, who served eight years as a U.S. Marine, scrapes by on $3 an hour in this northern Mexican city, where he has lived since the U.S. government deported him in April.

... As a deported veteran, Tepeyac is one of a little-known cadre of warriors who served in the U.S. military as green-card holders — permanent legal residents but not U.S. citizens — then committed a crime after returning to civilian life, were convicted and punished, then permanently expelled from the United States.

No one knows how many there are. U.S. officials said they do not keep track, but immigration lawyers and Banished Veterans, a group formed to help the deportees, said that at least hundreds, and perhaps thousands, have been deported in recent years.

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