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Tijuana, Mexico- Hector Barajas, 44, founder of the Deported Veterans Support House in Tijuana, Mexico on Thursday, June 3, 2021. Barajas was born in Mexico but raised in the US from the age of seven. After serving six years in the army and honorably discharged in 2001, he had difficulty adjusting to civilian life leading to his first deportation in 2004, then his second in 2010. He opened “the bunker” in 2013 to help other deported veterans in Mexico. In 2017, he was given a full pardon by Governor Jerry Brown and granted full citizenship in 2018. (Jane Hahn for the Washington Post)

Tijuana, Mexico- Hector Barajas, 44, founder of the Deported Veterans Support House in Tijuana, Mexico on Thursday, June 3, 2021.

Barajas was born in Mexico but raised in the US from the age of seven. After serving six years in the army and honorably discharged in 2001, he had difficulty adjusting to civilian life leading to his first deportation in 2004, then his second in 2010. He opened “the bunker” in 2013 to help other deported veterans in Mexico. In 2017, he was given a full pardon by Governor Jerry Brown and granted full citizenship in 2018.

(Jane Hahn for the Washington Post)