Deported Veterans

Since the passage of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, the United States has deported at least 94,000 non-citizen military veterans. These individuals, many of whom came to the U.S. as children and later enlisted to defend their adopted homeland, now find themselves exiled from the very country they consider home.

We must also press our leaders to restore their benefits, their legal status, and their dignity. This is not a partisan issue; this is a human rights issue, a matter of justice long overdue.