Summary
In a harsh example of Trump’s immigration crackdown, U.S. Army veteran and Purple Heart recipient Jose Barco faces deportation to Venezuela, despite serving in Iraq and suffering severe combat injuries.
After his citizenship application vanished during service and he served prison time for a violent offense linked to untreated trauma, ICE detained him upon release.
Venezuela won’t accept him, leaving him stateless.
Barco’s case spotlights the Trump administration’s punitive policies toward veterans, erosion of due process, and broader threats to constitutional rights under his increasingly authoritarian leadership.
Imagine being willing to die for a country and almost doing so and they just turn around and do this.
I mean if I were him and I had state secrets, I’d be looking to head to China.
The absolute idiocy of deporting a purple heart veteran. My God.
Dudes a retired vet; I can’t imagine he’s drowning in up-to-date classified info…
That and being purple heart means he saw action, isn’t likely the kind of nerd privy to the interesting intel.
A maintenance crew member from a B2 would be an intelligence score.