Former Wash. guardsman fights deportation order

[unhappycamper]

Former Wash. guardsman fights deportation order
By Phil Ferolito - Yakima (Wash.) Herald-Republic via AP
Posted : Saturday Oct 31, 2009 17:38:47 EDT

YAKIMA, Wash. — Although Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry is fighting deportation from the United States, he still flies an American flag at his west Yakima home.

“That is my flag,” he says. “I’m very attached to it. I’m a soldier and I respect that flag.”

Heeding those words, the 36-year-old Pakistani immigrant living in Yakima joined the Army National Guard and was sent to active duty at Fort Lewis and Fort Irwin, Calif.

Now, the country he served is kicking him out.

Immigration authorities are denying him U.S. citizenship because he failed to disclose old misdemeanor convictions in Australia when he applied for a visa a decade ago.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/ap_guard_washington_deportation_103109/



unhappycamper comment: Aaaah. The old pre-existing condition argument......

[jaxx]

1. What a crappy thing to do.

It looks like patriotic is a catch phrase for plastic flags......useful for rah-rah and then step on them. I hope they come to their senses and let the man become a citizen.