{"id":16099,"date":"2018-03-26T11:49:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T15:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=16099"},"modified":"2018-03-26T12:07:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T16:07:18","slug":"army-veteran-who-served-two-tours-in-afghanistan-was-deported-to-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/army-veteran-who-served-two-tours-in-afghanistan-was-deported-to-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Army veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan was deported to Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Sure. THAT&#8217;S the thanks our veterans deserve.<br \/>\nServe two tours being shot at in Afghanistan because of a failed &#8220;war on terror&#8221;, and then come home and have ICE show up at your door to send you to Mexico. I guess the thanks of a grateful nation ain&#8217;t what it used to be, thanks to how &#8220;great&#8221; America is becoming &#8220;again&#8221; under racist, non-white-immigrant-hater Trump.<br \/>\nImmigrants of ALL FLAVORS make our country better, create jobs, and spur economic growth. Every period of mass immigration in our history has created prosperity. We should be taking in all the immigrants we can handle&#8230;and certainly NOT deporting those who have earned a place here through military service.<\/p>\n<p>The Article &#8216;Army veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan was deported to Mexico&#8217; originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/miguel-perez-army-veteran-deported-ad37aa8afbf4\/\">https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/miguel-perez-army-veteran-deported-ad37aa8afbf4\/<\/a><br \/>\nJamie&#8217;s comments are his own.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure. THAT&#8217;S the thanks our veterans deserve. Serve two tours being shot at in Afghanistan because of a failed &#8220;war on terror&#8221;, and then come home and have ICE show up at your door to send you to Mexico. I guess the thanks of a grateful nation ain&#8217;t what it used to be, thanks to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[582,586,590,589,565,587,588,585,591,456],"tags":[593,597,596,96,598,594,595,592,523,33],"class_list":["post-16099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-editorial-2","category-imho","category-imo","category-jamiegray","category-moregray","category-myopinion","category-opinion-3","category-sharedlink","category-jamie-gray","tag-editorial","tag-imho-blogger","tag-imo","tag-jamiegray","tag-link","tag-moregray","tag-myopinion","tag-opinion","tag-blog","tag-jamie-gray"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16429,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/06\/americans-are-worlds-most-inclusive-to-immigrant-citizens-global-study-finds\/","url_meta":{"origin":16099,"position":0},"title":"Americans are world&#8217;s most inclusive to immigrant citizens, global study finds","date":"June 25, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Immigrants built this country, and are the key to our future success. 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