Veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan could be deported

"Many are rallying around Perez's case as an example of what they say is the U.S.'s desperately broken immigration policy."

With due respect to the unnamed and unidentified "many" in the CNN article, while our immigration policy no longer serves the needs of our country as it should, this is not an example of it being broken. You've someone legally in our country who serves legally in our Armed Forces at a time when such service provided a greatly shortened path to citizenship ... and he did not take advantage of it, committed a felony while serving, was convicted and discharged, and, as a consequence of violating the conditions of his green card, is getting deported. Nothing wrong with that as far as I can see. I wish we could deport some of our citizen convicted felons ... just don't know where we'd deport them to.

I'd add that IMV, our immigration issues get conflated with our more significant and serious illegal entry/overstaying visa issues. The latter have grown at least since the time of Eisenhower's 'Operation Wetback' and are a direct result of our abject failure to rigorously enforce our existing laws and update our laws and border security to reflect changing times and threats. In the federal lexicon, there is a difference between immigrants ... and illegal aliens. The difference is the legality of the former ... and the illegality of the latter.