Summary

In a harsh example of Trump’s immigration crackdown, U.S. Army veteran and Purple Heart recipient Jose Barco faces deportation to Venezuela, despite serving in Iraq and suffering severe combat injuries.

After his citizenship application vanished during service and he served prison time for a violent offense linked to untreated trauma, ICE detained him upon release.

Venezuela won’t accept him, leaving him stateless.

Barco’s case spotlights the Trump administration’s punitive policies toward veterans, erosion of due process, and broader threats to constitutional rights under his increasingly authoritarian leadership.

  • @SarcasticMan@lemmy.world
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    244 days ago

    It gets pretty ripe listening to guys bitch up one side of the mountain and down the other about how the Libtards are screwing them over. Then praise a guy who can’t get un fucked long enough to show up to a veterans event because it’s a golf day but in the same week ask for a 4-mile-long military parade for his birthday.

    • @DarthKaren@lemmy.world
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      104 days ago

      Rogers showed up to a kid’s fund run. There were all of like 15 kids there. 3 of them mine. She wouldn’t talk to anyone that wasn’t an officer. She wasn’t even there when the race started. Kid’s fund run and she couldn’t even stay and see it through or even walk the thing.