Posted on Mar 27, 2018
Army veteran deported to Mexico after drug conviction
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This pisses me off. Ok felony is a bad thing, I get it. He was serving time, I get it. He also had entered the country legally, received his green card, and served this country. I don't know the details of his criminal conviction, so I cannot speak to the validity of his claim that PTSD led him to his legal issues. Still I don't think that simply deporting a person who served honorably is the right thing to do.
Army veteran deported to Mexico after drug conviction
Posted from thehill.com
Crime
PTSD
Posted >1 y ago
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I have zero sympathy for someone who claims his PTSD led him to sell large amounts of drugs. There are true heroes that live with PTSD every day and they aren't selling major dealer level of drugs (when it was reported here the investigators said this was not a small amount of drugs and they classified him as a high level dealer). When you are here under a green card, it can always be revoked for felonies. If he wanted to stay, he had plenty of time to become a citizen but chose not to. Great that he served, but he lost all respect when he sold drugs... I did 3 counter drug deployments, and saw 1st hand the danger and damage that they do with relatives that have died from OD's. To me this guy is not a veteran, he is a drug dealer. Good riddance. My 2 cents...
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
LT Brad McInnis Here we just got the overview of it, so I haven't seen too many details. I agree that there are many who deal with PTSD without resorting to criminal behavior. I still think that it should have been weighed. At the very least let him stay here and play out the legal options. If after that it is decided to deport him I wouldn't have a problem with it. This just kinda seems like we sent him to Mexico so they can deal with the problem.
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Lopez also had a general, not honorable discharge. His downgraded departure was supposedly due to drug use during his uniformed service.
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
LTC Eugene Chu I was just enlightened to that. It does rather change the perspective on it. Hard to defend that.
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
SSG Matthew Adkins - If they threw out every drug trafficker, they would be deporting a lot of natural born U.S. Citizens.
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
CPO (Join to see) This one is a my bad moment. I should have done more research before I put this up.
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