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18 February 2012 - Two brothers who served in Vietnam demonstrate at the U.S.-Mexico border over a more stringent immigration policy that ensnared them because of misdemeanor criminal convictions more than 10 years ago.
Brothers Manuel and Valente Valenzuela still don their dress blue military uniforms with the ramrod-straight posture from their Vietnam War days. Manuel, a former Marine, carried out rescue missions. Valente, an Army soldier, was wounded and received a Bronze Star.
The brothers, both in their 60s, are now waging a legal battle against an unexpected foe: the U.S. government. They are trying to stop the country they served from deporting them to Mexico.
On Saturday, they took their protest to the U.S.-Mexico border, where they marched in a demonstration that mixed solemn defiance with unabashed patriotism.
Decked out in their military blues — shoes polished, commendations shining — they held aloft a U.S. flag. The uniforms, they said, were meant to distinguish them from illegal immigrants who are deported, some through a nearby gate from where they may one day be dispatched.
"We have to show what we have done and what we have sacrificed," said Manuel, a construction worker from Colorado Springs, Colo. "We are American. We could have died for this country."
The brothers' cases are the latest of several that highlight what some believe is a growing trend as U.S. immigration authorities, in casting a wide net to deport illegal immigrants, also snare non-citizen veterans who have committed crimes, including misdemeanors.
Immigration authorities said veterans who come under scrutiny, most of them green card holders, are treated differently, and potentially more leniently, than illegal immigrants. read more>>>
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