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.
It’s always the guy who did everything he could to dodge the draft who treats veterans like some sort of lesser being because they didn’t have the cash to get bone spurs.
And my fellow veterans eat his shit like it’s made of butterscotch and diamonds. Fucking pathetic.
Fellow vet: I never understood fellow service member’s blind servitude to the GOP. They fuck us over ever chance they get, and we’re dogs at a dog show for them only when it’s convenient. When they show up at a base, it’s either a completely scripted Q&A, with questions vetted weeks to months ahead of time, or they show and are guided around by the base commander and make a super quick appearance at whatever event.
My favorite was the 1 time Cathy McMorris did a debate. She touted helping 100’s of vets a month. Her opponent: “If you are really helping the vets, you wouldn’t have 100’s a month with issues.”
It gets pretty ripe listening to guys bitch up one side of the mountain and down the other about how the Libtards are screwing them over. Then praise a guy who can’t get un fucked long enough to show up to a veterans event because it’s a golf day but in the same week ask for a 4-mile-long military parade for his birthday.
Rogers showed up to a kid’s fund run. There were all of like 15 kids there. 3 of them mine. She wouldn’t talk to anyone that wasn’t an officer. She wasn’t even there when the race started. Kid’s fund run and she couldn’t even stay and see it through or even walk the thing.
I hated those visits. We had to field day our shop and barracks for the better part of the week prior. That put us so far behind we’d have to work 6 days a week 12+ hours a day just to catch up.
Those fucking voluntold assemblies on day shift. That’s ok, we don’t have jets to work on. I don’t have 10 computers to fix that will be kicked off the network tomorrow if I don’t patch them. Nah, we can stop this ISO inspection that is already behind. All so you can give some vapid speech and peace out before anyone else can talk to you.
I am certain that every sailor who had to cover up McCains name on the ship for his visit would love to see him waterboarded in a Vietnamese prison camp.
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Chuck him out, the brute!”
But it’s “Saviour of 'is country,” when the guns begin to shoot.
I know it varies by region but don’t be fooled, many vets I know, myself included, are not in support of this shit.
Isn’t it against some UN rule for a member state to cause an individual to become stateless?
What are they gonna do about it?
tell Trump he’s won a Nobel prize and has to come to the Hague to accept it
I dream of this actually happening.
It wouldn’t, because the US would invade the Hague. Like the US literally passed a law authorizing military action if one of its people get arrested for warcrimes.
I can still dream.
they wouldn’t be dumb enough to try to invade a nato country… maybe send some special forces raids though
Sounds about right. I know we all like to pretend Trump is “the worst”. And he is. But hear me out.
In no time in US history (except maybe post WW2 for white men) has this country ever respected the young adults that happened to survive from wars.
It’s just a different level of “fuck you” this time.
Didn’t Trump abandon hundreds of Afghanis who worked as translators etc?
The war machine is a meat grinder. Always has been. Always will be.
I beat him to it. I escaped from the USA during Trump’s first term. Not going back. I’m also a veteran and everything about Trump and his cult reminded me of the countries that we are always spying on and invading.
So much for service guarantees citizenship
It was never legally guaranteed but only de facto guaranteed because of “norms and traditions”
dint protect him from trump-guaranteed deportations.
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TRUMP TO VETERANS: suckers and losers, whats in it for them?
They are no different than slaves to him. Slaves to be used and discarded once they are done. This has actually been the norm throughout history. It is why very few people wanted to be soldiers in the past. They weren’t respected, and weren’t well paid and weren’t treated well afterward.
The whole idea of giving ex-soldiers benefits after the war is a fairly new idea in history. Historically the only people who did it were the Romans. If you were a roman legionaire and served 20 years you were given a plot of land. If you weren’t a Roman citizen you got that at the end, too.
But that was a uniquely Roman thing. For the most part if soldiers did get something out of war it was due to plunder. That was actually the principle motivation for many common people who went to war.
In France, if a member of the Foreign Legion is wounded, they are automatically granted French citizenship. This is known in France as Français par le sang verse. French by spilled blood.
Why the US doesn’t have the same makes no sense. If you were a green card holder, and you served in the US military and were wounded, citizenship should be yours for the asking at any time. No need for any lengthy legal shit.
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.
I am surprised that the “thank ya fer ya service” crowd isn’t throwing a fit.
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.
Conservatives in America are overwhelmingly white supremacist. They only respect the white veterans
performative politics.
The idea of citizenship in our stolen land is laughable.
Everyone who makes it here is supposed to be here
Fight fascists.
It is insane how I have to crawl around Lemmy to see this. A story like this would be flown on an over pass on highways across the country if this was reversed politically. There would be a clownvoy honking across the highway until every person was aware of this.
He likes the ones that didn’t get exploded into the side of a building.
I’ve got an idea for all these at risk vets… They should band together and uh… Well, let’s just say that 6 Jan happened.
Veteran ? You mean war criminal.
Care to share what you know?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War#By_Coalition_forces_and_private_contractors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes#Iraq_War
Fuck all these “veterans”
Whiny bitches
That’s some late karma
Guess the 'thank you for your service"-people are about to step up, right?
He already served. They said thank you.
Transaction complete!
Oh they can say thank you and go back to your country in the same breath.
“Thank you for deporting me for my service.”
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I bet John Stewart will.
Right alongside the second amendment people to take down the tyrant.
Ha hahahaha, you’re funny.
I can feel the Thoughts and Prayers from here.
Hey look it’s the anakin/padme meme
Right?
