{"id":37085,"date":"2013-08-14T10:14:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T14:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37085"},"modified":"2013-08-14T10:14:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T14:14:54","slug":"vet-criminals-to-be-deported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37085","title":{"rendered":"Vet criminals to be deported"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/a> has a long-ass article on veterans who are being deported to their home countries because they broke the law after they were discharged;<\/p>\n

Once [Marine Milton Tepeyac] served in the Kuwaiti desert in a recon battalion, a highly trained grunt monitoring the movements of Saddam Hussein\u2019s military across the border in Iraq. Later he ran a seafood business in Phoenix, drove a BMW, and owned a five-bedroom house with a billiards room and a pool.<\/p>\n

But then, with his business foundering in the 2008 recession, he was offered $1,000 to help with a drug deal that turned out to be a police sting. He was convicted of felony \u201cpossession of marijuana for sale\u201d and was sentenced to four years in an Arizona prison. When he completed his time, he was deported from the country where he had lived since he was 3.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t remember Iraqis crossing any borders except Kuwait’s but whatever. If you deal with illegal drugs then you should take what you’re given, that you made the deal with federal agents doesn’t mitigate your intentions. <\/p>\n

MCPO Ret. in TN sends a link to a similar story from Arizona<\/a>, in regards to John “mental plate” Ferron. Apparently, because he was an illegal alien, Ferron stole someone’s identification in order to join the Navy. He says that the VA gave him treatment after he was discharged despite his admission of that fact;<\/p>\n

[T]o the Navy, Ferron was known as Clyde Anthony Steele.<\/p>\n

An identity he says he got from a friend who gave him a copy of his birth certificate. “He says, ‘You keep it. You will need it more than I will.'”<\/p>\n

According to documents from Veterans Affairs, Ferron was honorably discharged two years later.<\/p>\n

“I have a mental plate in my head,” he says.<\/p>\n

Ferron claims he came clean, telling the VA he enlisted using someone else’s identity. “The VA told me ‘don’t worry about it. That happens all the time.'”<\/p>\n

So for 40 years, Ferron continued to receive treatment from the VA.<\/p>\n

But in 2007, benefits were cut when he was convicted for six different counts of identity theft and fraud charges for using the name Clyde Anthony Steele.<\/p>\n

He spent four years in prison. And now he wants forgiveness. “I did my time. I paid for my mistake.”<\/p>\n

But his criminal history doesn’t stop there, Ferron was arrested several times for drug related offenses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So he was just a crook, and since he only did two years in the service, I’m guessing he and the Navy didn’t part ways amicably. The thing is, just “being” a veteran isn’t enough. You have to live a good life to honor those who didn’t get discharged and no one understands that more than we understand it. We have to live lives worthy of their sacrifice and since civilians are so quick to judge all of us by the actions of a few, we owe it to each other to not deal drugs and stuff. There must be a reason that these people didn’t get US citizenship, so let that be just another of their shortcomings. If they wanted to stay here, they should have taken steps to guarantee that for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post has a long-ass article on veterans who are being deported to their home … Vet criminals to be deported<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}