WASHINGTON _ Days before a nationwide immigration raid targeting thousands of undocumented immigrants is set to begin, there is no indication that safeguards are in place to protect military veterans or their dependents who are not American citizens.
There are approximately 100 non-citizen veterans currently in deportation proceedings with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a recent U.S. government report found.
In deference to their military service, ICE's policy is that non-citizen veterans are supposed to receive additional consideration by higher-level officials, have their cases tracked by the government and have their potential deportation weighed against factors in their military service, such as time in combat, before action is taken to remove them from the United States.
