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José Olivares

Ice arrests of US military veterans and their relatives are on the rise: ‘a country that I fought for’

Four smiling men standing in a row
This undated photo provided by Alejandro Barranco shows, from left to right, Emanuel Barranco; Alejandro Barranco, a US marine veteran; Narciso Barranco, his father, who was beaten by immigration agents and arrested at a landscaping job; and Jose Luis Barranco. Photograph: AP

The son of an American citizen and military veteran – but who has no citizenship to any country – was deported from the US to Jamaica in late May.

Jermaine Thomas’s deportation, recently reported on by the Austin Chronicle, is one of a growing number of immigration cases involving military service members’ relatives or even veterans themselves who have been ensnared in the Trump administration’s mass deportation program.

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