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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad

Some migrants are turning to military service to keep their undocumented parents from being deported

U.S. citizens whose parents first entered the country illegally are volunteering for military service to take advantage of a policy that promises to shield their relatives from deportation, according to a report.

The development comes in response to President Donald Trump’s increasingly contentious crackdown on undocumented migrants, which exploded into controversy last week when an ICE agent taking part in immigration raids in Minneapolis shot dead a mother-of-three protesting the federal agency’s presence in her neighborhood.

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