Summary
In a harsh example of Trump’s immigration crackdown, U.S. Army veteran and Purple Heart recipient Jose Barco faces deportation to Venezuela, despite serving in Iraq and suffering severe combat injuries.
After his citizenship application vanished during service and he served prison time for a violent offense linked to untreated trauma, ICE detained him upon release.
Venezuela won’t accept him, leaving him stateless.
Barco’s case spotlights the Trump administration’s punitive policies toward veterans, erosion of due process, and broader threats to constitutional rights under his increasingly authoritarian leadership.
What are they gonna do about it?
tell Trump he’s won a Nobel prize and has to come to the Hague to accept it
I dream of this actually happening.
It wouldn’t, because the US would invade the Hague. Like the US literally passed a law authorizing military action if one of its people get arrested for warcrimes.
I can still dream.
they wouldn’t be dumb enough to try to invade a nato country… maybe send some special forces raids though