DALLAS — A Texas man has been stripped of his U.S. citizenship and deported after he was linked to human rights violations as a military officer during the civil war in El Salvador.
Arnoldo Antonio Vásquez, 60, a former second lieutenant in the Salvadoran military, was sent back to his native El Salvador this month — the result of a prosecution for unlawfully procuring his U.S. citizenship.
The investigation and prosecution, a rare one, was conducted by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit focused on human rights violators and war crimes, and by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations unit. Justice Department attorneys brought the case forward for litigation.
