Marine combat veteran recounts 'crushing' deportation to El Salvador. “I love America. I would fight for it again. I won’t turn my back on it. I really need it not to have its back turned to me.”
Segovia Benitez said he felt the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs had “failed me” and he was never given proper treatment for his condition and was forced to wait for help.“You want to be a normal kid, you want to be a normal young man,” he said. “Waking up every day with this feeling, the sweats, the helplessness the hopelessness. All that is part of my everyday life and I have been dealing with it.
He said he realized the meeting with the lawyer was not going to happen “when I’m in chains and heading to” an Arizona airport. In a statement Thursday, ICE said Segovia Benitez had “repeatedly violated the laws of the United States.” An immigration judge ordered him to be removed from the U.S. in Oct. 2018 and a subsequent appeal with the Board of Immigration Appeals was denied, the agency went on to say.
The Department of Veterans Affairs referred NBC News to the Department of Homeland Security for comment. Thomas Sanchez, one of the attorneys helping Segovia Benitez’s case, said in a domestic violence case against Segovia Benitez, the jury was not allowed to hear any information related to his military service, severe PTSD or his traumatic brain injury. He said he believed Segovia Benitez’s inability to afford a lawyer led him to be convicted of felonies for what should have been misdemeanor charges.
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