Bill to 'repatriate' deported veterans gets new life in Democratic House
Bipartisan bill would provide path to citizenship for immigrant veterans deported after committing nonviolent crimes
Two lawmakers have revived a bipartisan bill to bring deported veterans back to the United States as permanent legal residents and open up an expedited path to citizenship for pre-9/11 noncitizen veterans.
This week, GOP Rep. Don Young of Alaska and Rep. Vicente Gonzalez of Texas reintroduced their bill from last Congress — the “Repatriate Our Patriots Act.” It had floundered in 2017’s GOP-controlled Judiciary Committee.
But the former Republican committee chairman, Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte of Virginia, retired earlier this year.
Now Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York holds the committee gavel, and Gonzalez thinks the bill has a fighting chance to pass the House.
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