shere khan
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RE: Soldier Being Deported
(02-05-2018 10:23 AM)UofMstateU Wrote: (02-05-2018 10:15 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote: Seems like being a citizen would be a requirement to join the military get government assistance.
Do tell.
common sense just sneaks up on them when they havent been told what to think. not often, but it does happen.
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02-05-2018 07:27 PM |
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hawghiggs
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RE: Soldier Being Deported
(02-05-2018 09:45 AM)gdunn Wrote: (02-05-2018 09:42 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: Anyone who serves in the military should be eligible for citizenship. He was eligible but didn't take it. Why not?
Article stated he thought serving automatically made him a citizen.
I was in the Army from 92-98. I heard many people state that very thing and up until now. I assumed that it was true.
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02-05-2018 09:03 PM |
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gdunn
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RE: Soldier Being Deported
(02-05-2018 09:03 PM)hawghiggs Wrote: (02-05-2018 09:45 AM)gdunn Wrote: (02-05-2018 09:42 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: Anyone who serves in the military should be eligible for citizenship. He was eligible but didn't take it. Why not?
Article stated he thought serving automatically made him a citizen.
I was in the Army from 92-98. I heard many people state that very thing and up until now. I assumed that it was true.
There's definitely a disconnect. I think I'd be asking a CO or someone after basic and AIT.
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02-05-2018 09:23 PM |
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olliebaba
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RE: Soldier Being Deported
(02-05-2018 09:42 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: Anyone who serves in the military should be eligible for citizenship. He was eligible but didn't take it. Why not?
Agree 100% but only if they earn an Honorable Discharge.
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02-05-2018 09:44 PM |
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olliebaba
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RE: Soldier Being Deported
(02-05-2018 03:01 PM)Kaplony Wrote: Sad story but the underlying issue is a lack of personal responsibility. I know that personal responsibility is a trigger to you nanny state leftists but the only person responsible for his deportation is Perez, He's the one who didn't apply for citizenship and he's the one who got arrested delivering 2lbs of cocaine to an undercover cop. This isn't a "broken immigration system", this is one irresponsible person who is going to suffer for his own actions and inactions.
This guy probably knows that he screwed up and deserves to go back to Mexico. I guess it's better than being in prison for breaking the law.
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02-05-2018 09:49 PM |
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Kaplony
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RE: Soldier Being Deported
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/govern...ar-BBIRIN9
Quote:Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has denied clemency for an Army veteran and green card holder with a felony drug conviction, according to both the man's lawyer and his mother, who said she got the news in a letter from the governor's office Wednesday.
Advocates had hoped a pardon from the governor would encourage the government to grant citizenship to Miguel Perez Jr., retroactive to when he joined the military in 2001. His attorney, Chris Bergin, applied for citizenship on Perez's behalf in July.
That retroactive application for citizenship is the only pathway left for Perez, 39, after a three-judge panel for the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request for relief under the United Nations Convention against Torture, a protection that resembles asylum. He and human rights advocates believe his life would be in danger if he were sent back to Mexico, where he hasn't lived since age 8.
Bergin and Perez's mother, Esperanza Montes Perez, said Rauner turned down the clemency request. Rauner's office did not respond to questions on the matter.
But in the letter, the office said the family could file a new petition after Jan. 31, 2019. "Although the (Prisoner Review Board) and the governor do not disclose the reasoning behind a decision to grant or deny clemency, please know that we did not make the decision lightly," the letter said.
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02-08-2018 06:32 PM |
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UTSAMarineVet09
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RE: Soldier Being Deported
Should had done it back when he first joined the military... and he shouldnt have been dealing drugs.
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02-09-2018 10:02 AM |
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ArmyBlazer
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RE: Soldier Being Deported
(02-05-2018 09:03 PM)hawghiggs Wrote: (02-05-2018 09:45 AM)gdunn Wrote: (02-05-2018 09:42 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: Anyone who serves in the military should be eligible for citizenship. He was eligible but didn't take it. Why not?
Article stated he thought serving automatically made him a citizen.
I was in the Army from 92-98. I heard many people state that very thing and up until now. I assumed that it was true.
I’ve heard the same thing. It’s obviously not true, but people think it. It’s something that needs to start being clearly addressed on the front end while at MEPS or during in processing.
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02-09-2018 10:14 AM |
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