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06 Jun 2014 13:36 #194408
by chairman
St Ann, Jamaica (AP):
Howard Bailey joined the United States (US) Navy straight out of high school in Brooklyn, figuring he would see the world. He didn't expect to end up back in his native Jamaica, raising pigs and barely getting by in the poor village of his childhood.
The 43-year-old father of two was deported in May 2012 from the US to his Caribbean homeland because he was convicted of a marijuana-related felony drug charge in 1997, despite the four years he served in the Navy, including a few months on a supply ship during the first Gulf War.
Weighed down by worry and bone-deep weariness, he wants to get back to his family and the future he thought he was building in Virginia. Bailey was a teenager when he and his siblings followed their mother to New York City as green card holders, and he long considered the United States his home.
"It's so hard," Bailey said, gesturing at a few rough-hewn pigpens and yam vines climbing up bamboo sticks. "I went from owning a successful trucking business and two homes in the US, paying my taxes, raising two beautiful children with a beautiful wife to, well, what you see here."
Bailey's case has drawn the attention of immigration lawyers and media because his crime seems relatively minor and the punishment extreme. But he's not unique: Thousands of non-citizens who served in the US military have been deported to countries around the globe in recent years, immigrant advocates estimate. The precise number is unknown because the US government does not track deportees by veteran status.
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06 Jun 2014 16:12 - 06 Jun 2014 22:34 #194421
by mapoui
you know I don't care at all about dem fellas an dem. wood in deh rarse. deh deserve it.
deh join up and go kill people fighting to enrich the exploiters of the people. they are fighting to facilitate their own exploitation and america does not care at all, at all, at all. indeed military veterans are a problem to the american elite. the elite are fearful of them and want to kill and incapacitate them as much as they can.
those american born are in desperate straights..are treated like dirt and allowed to die. they sleep under bridges and have a very short shelf life after fighting 'for their country' ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL::
I have to laff! all ah dem fools and dem must stop enlisting and going into the third world to kill their own for their master.
how in the hell can I sympathize with a killer..or in this case a support killer in the US military..smashing country after country in the world. they placed their lives in the hands of a monster state that cares not a jot or tittle for any life but those of their elites. this man went and did his crap and got betrayed. they lied to him and and he went anyway. he lost.
its his fault. think about the Iraqi people and the state the are in right now. and his work was in full support of that destruction of a perfectly good country and an independent people. think about the people of Somalia and Libya..the thousands of Black Africans Obama sacrificed there to get Gaddafi.
screw this guy! he took his chances and lost. and instead of taking it like a man he bawling. millions of Iraqis not bawlin'! they are dead. Yardy or not wood in he rarse. there is no sympathy in this corner fuh him. he shud have know that america is capable of any betrayal possible and that he as a soldier counts for even less than civilian black people
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