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A group of Mexicans who served with the United States military in\u00a0Vietnam<\/a>\u00a0and Iraq only to be deported held a Veterans Day protest in the border city Ciudad Juarez.<\/p>\n A stone’s throw from the bridge between Juarez and El Paso, Texas, the deportees demonstrated with the flags of their US military units on Saturday.<\/p>\n “We served a country that has cheated us,” said Jose Francisco Lopez Moreno, 64. Many Mexicans have served in the US military in exchange for expedited residency.<\/p>\n But these veterans were deported for committing crimes, despite risking their lives in far-flung combat.<\/p>\n “It is so unfair. They separated us from our families, and we are alone here with no healthcare or assistance of any kind,” said Lopez, who served in Vietnam but was deported to\u00a0Mexico<\/a>\u00a0in 2004. Veterans in the\u00a0US<\/a>\u00a0receive pensions and healthcare.<\/p>\n Local officials estimate there are about 300 deportees.<\/p>\n “For as long as I live, even if I die on this side, I will always love the US flag. That was my life,” said Ivan Ocon, who served in\u00a0Iraq<\/a>\u00a0in 2003 but last year was deported to his homeland.<\/p>\n “It was like having a house come crashing down on top of you, to have them turn their backs on you after all that,” he added.<\/p>\n “You think that you would not be deported because you were part of something so great, but in the end, they throw you out just the same,” he said.<\/p>\n “We want to go back. That’s what we are asking Donald Trump. We fought for your country,” he said.<\/p>\n Trump<\/a>\u00a0has brought US-Mexican ties to their lowest point in many decades, seeking to build a border wall he first said he would force Mexico to fund. He later backtracked on that idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/11\/deported-veterans-protest-mexico-veterans-day-171112063017195.html A group of Mexicans who served with the United States military in\u00a0Vietnam\u00a0and Iraq only to be deported held a Veterans Day protest in the border city Ciudad Juarez. A stone’s throw from the bridge between Juarez and El Paso, Texas, the deportees demonstrated with the flags of their US military units on Saturday. “We served a country that… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1090,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}