Sen. Tammy Duckworth's bill would require the Homeland Security Department to get approval from the Pentagon or VA before denying parole in place to service members or veterans.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents aren’t always following the rules in deporting military veterans who are not citizens and treating them without regard for their service to the country, a deported veteran who has since become a citizen told a House Judiciary subcommittee on Tuesday.
By Piper Katarina Hudspeth Blackburn and Sam Cabral, Medill News Services
These locations were specifically selected based on which international field offices were handling a majority of overseas military naturalization applications, a USCIS official told reporters.
Officials clarified Thursday that, while the update creates a new hurdle for some military families to establish citizenship for their children born while they serve overseas, the change is expected to affect only a couple dozen families a year, based on their best estimates.
Top officials of the Department of Veterans Affairs declined to step in to try to exempt veterans and their families from a new immigration rule that would make it far easier to deny green cards to low-income immigrants, according to documents
By Yeganeh Torbati, Isaac Arnsdorf and Dara Lind, ProPublica