More 40 US Army Veterans who else was deported keep hope V TijuanaMexico’s border with the United States government Joe Biden their let me go back to the country for which they risked their lives.

Most of them deported for petty crimes are of Mexican origin and served in military missions in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Beirutamong others, but now they are fighting to return to the country where they practically spent their lives.

Roberto Vivar, Executive Director of United United States Deported Veterans Association, presented EFE that thanks to his organization, part of the veterans deported for up to 15 years or more received part of their benefits, but the battle to bring them home continues.

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INJURIES OF WAR

Vivar shared that most of them were deported “because when they returned to serve in the military and integration difficulties to civilian life, it turned out that his the only way out to alleviate the nightmares, the images of the war, it was with self-medication and this caused them legal problems“.

The problem is that in most cases they do not receive psychological treatment, which leads them to this self-treatment, which is intensified after deportation, because “they do not understand how they were so easily abandoned.”

Vivar stressed that all veterans that your organization receives an exhibit despair, anxiety and insecuritySo when they discover them in a city, the first thing they look for is to offer them an opportunity to integrate into the community.

“In addition, we help them to get housing, Get Documentation and Get Startedin addition to seeing what benefits they qualify for and finding some kind of immigration relief that will help them with their repatriation,” he said.

He stressed that they These are difficult processes to handle. Because most of them left Mexico at a very young age, they lived their lives in the US and many went to the battlefields when they were in the military, so they come back with PTSD.

“What caused a huge upheavaland all this in addition to legal problems, prisoners in pre-trial detention centers and then be deported to the country where you were born, but this you really don’t know anymorethis is all shock“, he pointed out.

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NEITHER HERE NOR THERE

Hector Lopez Guillen veteran What was it deported 20 December 2006 and since then he has been looking for a way to return to what he calls home.

“When I arrived (in Mexico), it was very difficult for me because I I have been raised in the United States since I was three years old.and it’s hard in the first place get racism from my peoplebecause they didn’t want me to be here because they said that I’m not Mexican, I’m “pocho” (a pejorative term for Mexican Americans) and it’s one of the hardest things to do,” he said.

López Guillén also told EFE that another difficulty is that they don’t understand.”why a country that doesn’t want me to be there says that I can be buried there for service to the country, but I can’t live there because I’m being deported.doesn’t make sense.”

“Is very difficult understand and be able to maintain courtesy and sanity and it becomes a problem with several veterans, because several veterans died on us, because they become addicted because of this situation“, said.