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.
Anyone surprised by this
I am surprised that the “thank ya fer ya service” crowd isn’t throwing a fit.
Thank you for your service mostly means, “look at me being a real good boy! Are you happy I’m a real good boy?! I thought about joining! Did you know that I thought about it? Mama said I have flat feet. Did I say thank you for your service?”
It’s about in-group membership. In-group loyalty to trump is supreme, followed by Republican party, with American a distant third.
It’s not about values or internal consistency. It’s about belonging.
This is what I initially came to say and got lost along the way. Thank you.
Conservatives in America are overwhelmingly white supremacist. They only respect the white veterans
Their media ain’t covering these stories. And if the media is covering the story, they find the single person that lines up with what-ever narrative they want and run with it. Facts be damned if they fucked over 99 other innocent people to get that single guilty looking person.
performative politics.