“I’m disillusioned and tired. Send me to a country that will accept me since my country doesn’t”

"I’m not going to grovel my country for the privilege of living in it, a privilege I thought I earned in blood."
Reposted from Stars and Stripes
Jose Barco, a decorated U.S. Army veteran once based out of Fort Carson who served 2 tours in Iraq, was taken into custody last month by ICE because his citizenship papers, which were supposed to be processed while he was in the Army, were lost.

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