Seven US Congress Members Travel to Tijuana to Meet Deported Veterans Brie Stimson - NBCLA
go to original June 4, 2017

Former Compton veteran creates support home for deported vets in Mexico (KABC)

California's Rep. Juan Vargas and six other members of congress met with deported veterans and their families in Tijuana Saturday to raise awareness on the issue.

“It was heartbreaking again to listen to the stories,” Vargas said in a press conference. “If all Americans knew about this they would be outraged.”

Rep. Vargas introduced a Deported Veterans Bill Package a week ago that would prevent veterans from being deported and help those who have been deported get access to medical care.

"The law has to change because this is a great injustice,” Vargas said. “If you’re a person from another country and you commit this crime, you get deported. They made no exception for veterans."

Hector Barajas served nearly six years in the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division before he was honorably discharged. In 2004, he was deported to Mexico after serving a prison sentence for firing a gun inside his car.

Barajas now runs the Deported Veterans Support House in Tijuana where the congressmen met Saturday.

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