Iraq Veteran US Marine is Granted Citizenship 5 Years After He Was Forced Out of the Country

[WhiteTara]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/iraq-veteran-us-marine-granted-150800640.html?nhp=1

A US Marine who served in Iraq before forced out of the only country he's ever known when it was discovered he was an undocumented immigrant can now officially call himself and American.

Daniel Torres, who came to the US on a visitor's visa as a teen then remained in the country with them illegally after it expired, used a false birth certificate to join the Marines in 2007.

He served in the Iraq War before authorities discovered he was never a US citizen. He was not deported, but left voluntarily in 2011 after being honorably discharged from the military.

Torres, 30, has lived in Tijuana, Mexico--the city of his birth--ever since.

On Thursday, he was sworn in as a United States citizen in a brief ceremony in San Diego, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports.

[Adrahil]

1. Welcome home, brother! NT