New Hopes For Deported Veterans

Last month, the Biden administration announced a new initiative to bring back veterans who were “unjustly removed" from the U.S.

For more than 10 years, Iraq War veteran Laura Meza has been banished from the U.S. and living in exile in Costa Rica. The former U.S. Army private was deported in 2009 for possession of cannabis and attempted robbery.   She says she committed those crimes while self-medicating with drugs after being raped in training and then sent to Iraq. Now, for the first time in years, Meza has hope. Last month, the Biden administration announced a new initiative to bring back veterans who were "unjustly removed."