https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...ed-in-iraq-deported-to-el-salvador/ar-AAJg7lD
Thank you for your service
Thank you for your service
USMC Vet who served 2 tours in Iraq deported
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Trump would gain back some goodwill by reversing this decision. But I fear the poor guy is just the wrong color for our President.
That's if they can find him. He's already in El Salvidor right now and likely doesn't know anyone.
This is a tough one. The guy has a felony assault with a deadly weapon. But was this partly due to the head injury sustained while fighting for us overseas? Did we just say "eff it" and deport him, or did we do anything to try and rehabilitate him after the war. Lots of unanswered questions here.
He wasn't diagnosed with PTSD until 2011. It sounds like all of his crimes where before he got help.
Even if not I tend to believe that someone who has served the US in such a capacity has earned the right to be treated the same as a citizen when it comes to crimes. Jail and prison time yes. But exile afterwards no.
He hasn't lived in El Salvidor since he was a toddler.
Unacceptable.
"Jose Segovia-Benitez, a 38-year-old Marine Corps combat veteran who served in Iraq, was deported to El Salvador - a country where he hasn't lived since he was a toddler - on Wednesday."
Under any sane definition he was ours.
"Jose Segovia-Benitez, a 38-year-old Marine Corps combat veteran who served in Iraq, was deported to El Salvador - a country where he hasn't lived since he was a toddler - on Wednesday."
Under any sane definition he was ours.
He was diagnosed in 2011, that doesn't mean he wasn't already suffering the effects. And, that's a maybe, I don't know. One of my wife's cousins is married to a guy that suffered three TBIs during his time in combat between Iraq and Afghanistan. He has a better support network because my wife's uncle (The father of the cousin I mentioned), served two tours in Vietnam, and suffered grievous physical injuries, and suffers from PTSD. She reacted swiftly and has advocated aggressively for him to get treatment, and eventually a service dog.
The linked story mentions that self medication with alcohol was in the mix. That sounds like a guy struggling, and he wasn't helped. Now he's wandering around in a country that he knows nothing about, and has no support network.
