{"id":354229,"date":"2018-03-28T15:46:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T14:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-military-veteran-with-ptsd-deported-to-mexico\/"},"modified":"2018-03-28T15:46:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T14:46:57","slug":"presstv-us-military-veteran-with-ptsd-deported-to-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-military-veteran-with-ptsd-deported-to-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US military veteran with PTSD deported to Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A US military veteran who fought in the war against Afghanistan and had been in the US since age 8 has been deported to Mexico because of a 2008 drug-trafficking conviction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Miguel Perez, 39, who had a green card, was deported Friday, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials confirmed Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Perez was flown from Gary, Indiana, to Brownsville, Texas, where officers escorted him across the border and turned him over to Mexican authorities, ICE officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Perez was born in Mexico and came legally to the United States at age 8 with his family. His family settled in Chicago because of a job offer his father received.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not leaving. They&#8217;re taking me,&#8221; Perez told US media on Thursday from a detention center.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will continue to struggle, not only for myself, but for other veterans and others who have been separated from their families by the US&#8217;s unjust immigration laws. It is my duty to continue this fight for equity,&#8221; he&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/03\/28\/556742\/US-military-veteran-deportation-Trump-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US military veteran who fought in the war against Afghanistan and had been in the US since age 8 has been deported to Mexico because of a 2008 drug-trafficking conviction. Miguel Perez, 39, who had a green card, was deported Friday, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials confirmed Monday. Perez was flown from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-354229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}