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Patriotism, sacrifice, and courage are being met with deportation. Republicans are intentionally not solving this problem to get leverage to reduce the number of legal immigrants coming to the USA. We reject the premise of this immoral game. People are not leverage.

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Spencer Woodman

@spencerwoodman

Feb 1, 2018

ICE has arrested a U.S. army veteran who served two tours of duty in Afghanistan and has two U.S. citizen children. His name is Miguel Perez Jr. and he has lived in the U.S. since he was 8 years old chicagotribune.com/news/local/bre

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4:07 AM · Feb 2, 2018

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How can anyone who has served our country be deported!? 😢

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My lord, the guy is a convicted drug mule who was discharged from the military for drugs. May not want to hitch yourself to this wagon.

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Trumps campaign started with a message of nativism, racism and hatred. This is what happens when you give up your right to vote. Nearly half of eligible voters didn’t vote in the 2016.

Rich Mintz aka @richmintz@masto.ai

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Also the people doing this are GARBAGE PEOPLE — as a senator you may prefer not to say this, but I’m perfectly willing to. The

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agents who are detaining and deporting these people are shameful collaborators in a racist monstrosity that will stain this nation forever.

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But Perez was actually targeted for deportation and transferred to an ICE facility back in 2016 when President Barack Obama was still in office. So now Obama's a racist.

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ICE is gestapo

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He was caught trying to sell cocaine to a Federal agent, & ordered to be deported in 2016 when Obama was sitting President. I'm sorry, was he your dealer?

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Agree. If his status was good enough for the military to accept him and put him in harm's way (twice) in defense of our country, it should be good enough to let him stay.

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Yeah, too bad he was ordered to be deported under Obama...