Service Members, Not Citizens: Meet The Veterans Who Have Been Deported

I was in this situation. I was born in Germany and adopted and brought to the states when I was 4 years old. 15 years later I joined the Marine Corps and served honorably for 12 years. While I was in, I had a background check done and was questioned by those granting my clearance was eventually granted a Secret Clearance. It wasn't until I left the Corps in 2009 and tried to go to Afghanistan as a Government contractor that I was told that I wasn't a citizen (I needed a passport to get to Afghanistan and since I wasn't a citizen, I couldn't get one). So needless to say, I had to take the citizenship test and stand in the Naturalization ceremony. I did finally deploy to Afghanistan and spent a year over there supporting different units.
I always considered myself an American and, although I was not born here, I love this country just as much as the next guy. I feel as though the people who choose to serve, feel the same way.

Wow! I don't even know where to begin with this. I'm trying to wrap my head around all the legal issues and their consequences.We're letting everyone from where everywhere into this country for their safety, and we're locking all of our veterans out for our safety? Because they're in the country illegally? Ummmmm.... Let me process this and get back to this.

This is a hard question. When one considers that they too have put their lives on the line, and then summarily rejected by the very government they have sworn an allegiance to, well, it can be insulting, to say the least. If they have answered the clarion call, then they should be allowed to stay.