Army Veteran Of Afghanistan War Faces Deportation

A U-S Army veteran is being held in a Wisconsin detention center while he awaits deportation for a 10-year-old drug conviction.  Immigration officials decided Miguel Perez Junior will not be granted U-S citizenship retroactive to 2001 — when he joined the military.  Perez says he mistakenly thought he became a U-S citizen when he took an oath to protect the country.  ICE agents took the 39-year-old into custody after he had served half of a 15-year prison sentence based on a drug conviction