Under special provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act, people who served in the military during a period of hostility may become US citizens without typical requirements such as permanent residence in the US.<\/p>\n
After his swearing in, Torres told reporters he’d chosen to become a Marine nearly a decade earlier to fulfill a life goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I enlisted in the Marines I knew the risks. It was something that could come up, it was something that could come back and hurt me,\u201d he said. \u201cI was just hoping that I wasn\u2019t going to pay for that mistake for the rest of my life. And now I\u2019m able to finally go home and live the life I feel like I need to.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe don\u2019t choose where we are born. I didn\u2019t even choose to come to this country, but we can choose who we are loyal to and I\u2019m loyal to the United States,\u201d Torres told reporters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Thursday, Daniel Torres became a US citizen. Torres served in the war in Iraq as a US Marine in 2007, but he had falsified his identification documents because he had immigrated to the US illegally as a teen. So when that was discovered, he voluntarily deported himself to Mexico after being honorably discharged from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illegal-immigrants","category-veterans-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Daniel-Torres.jpg?fit=303%2C346&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-h15","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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