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News: 2025

April 9.   Michael Embrich: Trump Is Trying to Deport a Purple Heart Veteran.

April 28.   Michael Embrich: Trump’s War on the Vulnerable Has Now Reached Military Families: The Trump Homeland Security Department turned on one of its own, as it moved to deport an active duty Coast Guard wife from a naval station in Key West.

May 28.   Billal Rahman: Veteran’s Daughter Living in US 48 years Locked Up by ICE.

June 22.   Jack Cook: ICE detains Marine Corps veteran’s wife who was still breastfeeding their baby.

June 23.   Julie Watson: Marine veteran says Border Patrol agents beat his dad, while agency says he swung trimmer at them.

June 24.  Juliana Kim: Purple Heart Army veteran self-deports after nearly 50 years in the U.S.

June 24.   Ramon Antonio Vargas: US marine veteran says he feels ‘betrayed’ after father arrested by Ice agents: Alejandro Barranco describes in CNN interview how his father was detained while doing landscaping in California.

June 26.   Ramon Antonio Vargas: Purple heart army veteran self-deports after 50 years from ‘country I fought for’: Green card holder Sae Joon Park left for South Korea after saying he was being targeted by Trump administration.

June 28.   José Olivares: Ice arrests of US military veterans and their relatives are on the rise: ‘a country that I fought for’: As Trump urges more deportations, veterans are seeing their parents, children and even themselves detained.

July 4.   Michael Embrich: Trump Celebrates Fourth of July by Deporting Veterans and Their Families.

July 8.  Zoe Sottile: He was born to a US citizen soldier on an army base in Germany. Now he’s been deported to Jamaica, a country he’d never been to.

July 17.   Olga R. Rodriguez: Army veteran and US citizen arrested in California immigration raid warns it could happen to anyone.

August 31.   Marie-Rose Sheinerman: For noncitizen veterans who commit crimes, deportation like a ‘second punishment’: Some U.S. veterans who have served prison sentences are being stripped of their legal residencies and could be deported.

September 30.   Home of the Brave: I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason. Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

November 20.   Gloria Rebecca Gomez: Veterans condemn deportations of immigrant service members under Trump: Advocates demand repatriation as estimates suggest 10,000 veterans have been deported since January.

December 11.   Katie Herchenroeder: We’d Never Deport Veterans, Noem Says in Earshot of Deported Veteran.