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"Send me to a country that will accept me, since my country doesn't" 
"......39-year-old Jose Barco, a decorated American soldier who deployed twice to Iraq, saw horrific combat and received a Purple Heart after an explosion tossed him through the air and left him with a traumatic brain injury.
He was just four years old when his family left Venezuela, a country his father fled to after he was being released as a political prisoner in Cuba. Jose Barco's fellow inmates in Texas, most of them much younger, simply call him "Cuba."
How an American veteran, a father of a 15-year-old daughter, found himself inside this sprawling detention center outside Corpus Christi, Texas, waiting for a flight to a country he barely knows is a tortured tale of battlefield trauma, bureaucratic bumbling and eventually, a serious crime......"
"......Tia Barco described it best.
“He is an orphaned man,” she said.
Barco told her that when Venezuelan officials found out that he had no family or friends in Venezuela, “they laughed and said he definitely didn’t want to end up there.”
After the rejection by Venezuela, Barco was sent to the El Valle Detention Center in Raymondville, Texas. A week later, he spent the night in Alexandria, Louisiana, and on Sunday was flown back to the Aurora ICE detention facility, the same place ICE agents dropped him off nearly three months ago after picking him up from the Colorado Department of Corrections prison......."
denvergazette.com
Interesting story, searched for his name here on DP, didn't find anything.
Guessing (adding insult to injury) he could be violating parole now.
"......39-year-old Jose Barco, a decorated American soldier who deployed twice to Iraq, saw horrific combat and received a Purple Heart after an explosion tossed him through the air and left him with a traumatic brain injury.
He was just four years old when his family left Venezuela, a country his father fled to after he was being released as a political prisoner in Cuba. Jose Barco's fellow inmates in Texas, most of them much younger, simply call him "Cuba."
How an American veteran, a father of a 15-year-old daughter, found himself inside this sprawling detention center outside Corpus Christi, Texas, waiting for a flight to a country he barely knows is a tortured tale of battlefield trauma, bureaucratic bumbling and eventually, a serious crime......"
"......Tia Barco described it best.
“He is an orphaned man,” she said.
Barco told her that when Venezuelan officials found out that he had no family or friends in Venezuela, “they laughed and said he definitely didn’t want to end up there.”
After the rejection by Venezuela, Barco was sent to the El Valle Detention Center in Raymondville, Texas. A week later, he spent the night in Alexandria, Louisiana, and on Sunday was flown back to the Aurora ICE detention facility, the same place ICE agents dropped him off nearly three months ago after picking him up from the Colorado Department of Corrections prison......."
Deported former Army soldier returned to Colorado after Venezuela refused to take him
American authorities returned a decorated Fort Carson Army veteran and also a convicted felon to Colorado this weekend, the latest stop on the former soldier's criss-crossed deportation trail.
denvergazette.com
Interesting story, searched for his name here on DP, didn't find anything.
Guessing (adding insult to injury) he could be violating parole now.
