Army veteran faces possible deportation to Mexico
By Sarah Schulte
Sunday, March 05, 2017 08:59AM
CHICAGO --
A deportation hearing was held Monday for an Army veteran who served two tours of duty in Afghanistan and may now be deported to Mexico.
Army Private 1st class Miguel Perez, Jr., who was born in Mexico and grew up in Chicago, told an immigration judge that loves the U.S. and gets chills when he hears the Star Spangled banner.
After the 2.5-hour hearing in Chicago, the judge said she would give a written decision in a few weeks.
Perez, 38, was a legal permanent resident when he joined the Army and said he thought he became a legal U.S. citizen when he enlisted. However, that was not the case.
About four years after leaving the military, Perez served prison time for a felony drug offense which sparked the deportation proceedings.
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It's one of those cases that, per the last paragraph, the individual gets in trouble with the law. Similar has happened before.
