Opinion: Deported veterans should not be denied the health care they’ve earned
Thousands of foreign-born veterans who served honorably in the armed forces are now scattered across the globe following deportation.
Armando limped into the waiting room of the support house for deported U.S. veterans in Tijuana, Mexico. We were there to evaluate him for humanitarian parole, a process by which an individual banned from the United States can appeal to return on a temporary basis for an extenuating circumstance — in Armando’s case, medical care for a disabling bone infection at a VA facility just across the border in San Diego.
Born in Mexico, Armando
