A honorable discharge DD-214 should come with naturalized citizenship papers automatically.
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
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I came here to say this. Like wtf he’s done more for this country than half of the citizens born here
One less war criminal.
Can someone kindly explain to me how you can be a veteran but not a citizen?
U.S. citizens and some non-citizens can join the military. If you are not a U.S. citizen, you must:
- Have a U.S. Permanent Resident Card (Green Card)
- Speak, read, and write English fluently
You cannot join the military to enter the U.S. or to get a visa.
Being a citizen is not a requirement for serving in the US armed forces
I always assumed that fighting for the army means you're a citizen.
And I do think that if you served in active duty, you deserve citizenship.
But I'm not American. They can make their own rules of course.
So, there is a path to citizenship if you serve 3 years, but you have to file the paperwork at that time. If you didn't file it for whatever reason, there is no automatic citizenship for service.
I'm sure it depends on the country. Many do allow non citizens though. The French Foreign Legion is one of the most well known
“I get it. I broke the law and everything, but I think this is a little severe what they’re doing to me after I paid my dues after I did my time for the offense that I did,” he said.
Okay. So he gets shot twice serving the U.S. The military doesn’t give him support for his PTSD, and he turns to drugs. He gets addicted, fights with that for over a decade before they throw him in jail because there isn’t a fucking social program to help addicts in this country, not even veteran addicts, gets clean in jail, turns his life around, and spends the next 16 years complying with the restrictions placed on him due to losing his green card because of his nonviolent conviction.
So even though he apparently is one of the few people who was rehabilitated by going to prison, he was treated as if he was a criminal for the rest of his time, even though he’s been clean longer than he was an addict. So I guess the state doesn’t believe that prisons rehabilitate people. (I don’t believe they do, but it’s clear the state doesn’t either.)
And finally, this man has a non-violent conviction. Trump has done more violent crime than him. But I guess it doesn’t count if you pay off your victims and make them sign an NDA, so the media has to say “allegedly” every time they talk about all the people you’ve raped. Trump should be deported to the nearest place that’ll take him.
No one deserves that clown. The American people need to deal with him.
There are some Middle Eastern countries that would be ecstatic to host him for a short time.
I mean. That’s fair. I would accept a desolate island or wherever they dropped off Bin Laden.
Park moved to the U.S. from Seoul when he was 7 years old and had legal permanent residency under a green card.
he suffered from severe PTSD. He turned to marijuana to cope with nightmares and sensitivity to loud noises and moved to Hawaii in 1995 for a better lifestyle. But he became addicted to crack cocaine and struggled for years to get clean.
Crack led to prison led to revoked green card.
More proof that the War on "Drugs" is largely an authoritarian criminalization of untreated mental health issues.
We shouldn't lock people up for addiction any more than we should lock people up over depression.
“You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
John Daniel Ehrlichman (/March 20, 1925 – February 14, 1999) was an American political aide who served as White House Counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon. Ehrlichman was an important influence on Nixon's domestic policy, coaching him on issues and enlisting his support for environmental initiatives—Wikipedia
I hate the euphemism of "self-deport."
Let's call it what it really is: ICE threatened to lock him up and send him to an undisclosed location if he didn't flee the country.
Forced to self-deport? So... Deported. It's redundant.
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