After picking up a brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder during a tour in Afghanistan, then spending over seven years in jail for a drug conviction, before being deported to his native Mexico, a U.S. Army veteran has finally saluted the flag he fought under for the first time as a U.S. citizen.
Miguel Perez Jr. was sworn in as a U.S. citizen on Oct. 4, two months after being pardoned for the drug conviction which had seen him thrown out of the country last year. Immigration officials last month then granted him permission to reenter to try to apply for U.S citizenship.
