Time for America to stop thanking veterans for serving then deporting their wives

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Jim Jones, Opinion contributor
Published 9:56 a.m. ET Aug. 3, 2018 | Updated 3:18 p.m. ET Aug. 3, 2018

Sgt. Cuauhtemoc “Temo” Juarez served on three continents as a member of the U.S. Marine Corps from 1995 to 1999. After that, he joined the Florida National Guard and served a deployment in Iraq ...

Temo got married in 2000. He and his wife of 18 years, Alejandra, have two daughters, 8-year-old Estela and 16-year-old Pamela, both of whom are United States citizens ...

Alejandra was arrested by immigration authorities in 2013 and was scheduled to be deported. However, the deportation was stayed for several years under an immigration policy known as “parole in place,” which gives U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) discretion to allow family members of military personnel and veterans to remain in the U.S. The program has recently been curtailed, resulting in the deportation order ...

This decrease in discretion is affecting a growing number of military and veteran families. As many as 11,800 military families now face the possible deportation of a loved one, according to American Families United ...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/08/03/military-families-immigrants-deserve-better-immigration-family-separation-column/894079002/

Wife of Marine forced to leave family as efforts to stop her deportation fail
Joel Shannon, USA TODAY
Published: 10:31 AM EDT August 4, 2018
Updated: 2:06 PM EDT August 4, 2018

The wife of a Marine boarded a plane in Orlando, Florida, bound for Mexico on Friday after running out of options to stop her impending deportation ...

[janterry]

1. I honestly don't support discretion for military

I don't want any of these folks deported. But I don't want to carve out an exception for the military. That husband/father voted for Trump. Was he fine with everyone ELSE being deported? Except his wife??

Vote for Democrats. We don't want to deport military spouses who are caught up w ICE but we ALSO don't want to deport other families spouses.

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2. Where did you see that he voted for Trump?

Haven't seen where it was noted that he voted for Trump. Where did you see it? Just read the USA Today and didn't find it (could have missed it).

[janterry]

3. Here's one reference

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/iraq-war-veteran-s-wife-faces-deportation-friday-family-asks-n897031

Juarez had been living in Davenport, Florida, with her husband, Cuauhtemoc, also known as Temo, and their two daughters. Temo, who describes himself as a conservative who voted for Trump, had written his own letter to the president asking for a reprieve for his wife, reported Stars and Stripes.

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4. Thanks