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Earlier this summer, I wrote about how the wife of a U.S. soldier in Iraq faced deportation. Not satisfied with going after the significant others of those who have risked their lives (and sometimes lost) in Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security is now targeting undocumented parents of Iraq war vets.

Three years after U.S. Army Private Armando Soriano, 20, died fighting in Haditha, Iraq, his father is facing deportation. Soriano is now buried in Houston, Tex., his hometown, where his parents, undocumented workers from Mexico, are currently living.

What’s even sadder about this story is that Soriano was able to get a green card for his mother, but not his father. So not only did the couple lose a son, now they may lose each other. Should there be some special consideration for families of vets?

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