Jim Mattis: Service members and veterans under DACA won’t be deported

Published February 8, 2018 9:54pm ET



Current and former U.S. military members enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will be protected from deportation, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Thursday, unless they are under court order or have a felony conviction.

Mattis said that anyone on active duty, active reserves, with an honorable discharge, or waiting to go to boot camp under the Pentagon’s Delayed Entry Program will not be subject to any kind of deportation.

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