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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.

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.