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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, It has come to the attention of the Illinois
3Senate that there are a significant number of veterans of
4foreign wars, including World War II, Vietnam, Iraq, and
5Afghanistan veterans, who were legal permanent residents of the
6United States; and
 
7    WHEREAS, When these veterans returned to civilian life
8without appropriate support in reintegration, both
9psychologically and economically, they fell into addictions
10and criminal activities, were arrested and, due to their legal
11permanent resident status, were deported; and
 
12    WHEREAS, Many of these veterans live in Mexico in terrible
13and abject conditions after having served honorably in the
14Armed Forces of the United States; and
 
15    WHEREAS, Several of these veterans have asked for support
16in obtaining reentry into the United States to be with their
17families and United States citizen children; and
 
18    WHEREAS, Our nation owes these veterans adequate support
19and rehabilitation equal to that owed veterans with full
20citizenship; and
 

 

 

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1    WHEREAS, These deported veterans represent the tragic
2results of a population under siege by the policies of mass
3deportation and mass incarceration and should be supported in
4resistance to those policies; therefore, be it
 
5    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL
6ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we urge the members of
7the United States Congress and the President of the United
8States to return those veterans to their families, children,
9and communities in the United States; and be it further
 
10    RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
11delivered to the members of the Illinois congressional
12delegation and the President.