War Veterans Clash with The Department of Homeland Security

Current U.S. law provides for the automatic deportation of immigrants who commit certain statutorily enumerated crimes. As with any legal proceeding, there is presumably a certain degree of prosecutorial discretion that the government may exercise when deciding which defendants to deport and which to provide with a second chance, however, for the following individuals, even their status as war veterans was not enough to dissuade the U.S. government from sending them back to their countries of nationality.