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‘I Feel Like An American’: Deported Marine Corps Veteran Is Back In SoCal After Becoming US Citizen Syndicated Local – CBS Los Angeles
ARTESIA (CBSLA) A Marine Corps veteran, who after being deported to Mexico following a misdemeanor crime nine years ago, now has American citizenship and is back with his family in Southern California.
“I feel at home. This is my home,” Ocegueda said. “When they deported me, I cried when I crossed the border. Now, I cry out of joy. It’s the total opposite. I feel good. I feel like an American.”
53-year-old Hector Ocegueda left Mexico as a child and was forced to return there after a conviction for intoxicated driving.
Deported veteran returns to U.S. to become American citizen
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Deported veteran returns to U.S. to become American citizen
LOS ANGELES (AP) It took nearly a decade and a federal lawsuit for U.S. Marine Corps veteran Hector Ocegueda to finally come home.
Following a conviction for intoxicated driving, he had been deported to Mexico, a country he left with his parents when he was a child. The 53-year-old has spent the past nine years living in Mexico but on Friday, will take the oath to become an American citizen a step that allows him to return to his family in Southern California.
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