It's been reported that 1 in 3 of the country's 19 million veterans have been arrested and booked at least once, and currently about 181,500 are behind bars. According to the Los Angeles United Methodist Museum of Social Justice, this country has approximately 700,000 foreign-born veterans, and 45,000 active members, and each year, 5,000 new immigrants join the military. As of 2018, 17 percent of those foreign-born veterans have not been naturalized. This museum had an amazing exhibition of Portraits of Deported Veterans by Joseph Silva.

For more information, please follow up with Repatriate Our Patriots: https://www.repatriateourpatriots.org/

Below are the links to my references:

https://www.museumofsocialjustice.org/deported-veterans.html

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/717/text?s=1&r=136&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22veteran%22%5D%7D

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4569/text

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3280/text

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6381/text

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3278/text

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/02/02/executive-order-restoring-faith-in-our-legal-immigration-systems-and-strengthening-integration-and-inclusion-efforts-for-new-americans/

https://abcnews.go.com/US/citizen-veterans-fight-back-deportations-violent-crimes/story?id=101164277

https://www.dhs.gov/publication/dhsallpia-092-immigrant-military-members-and-veterans-initiative-immvi

Historic and current events surrounding women's reproductive health in the military and the VA, and how it affects everything else.

Here are the links to what is referenced:

https://uslaw.link/citation/us-law/public/80/625

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Armed_Services_Integration_Act

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/executive-orders/10240/executive-order-10240

https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/issues/birth-control/griswold-v-connecticut#:~:text=The%20Supreme%20Court%27s%20ruling%20in,decision%20in%20the%20Griswold%20v.

https://casetext.com/case/crawford-v-cushman

The VA's Final Interim Rule on abortion counseling and abortion services:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/09/09/2022-19239/reproductive-health-services

Rep. Mike Bost's press release on the VA's final interim rule: https://bost.house.gov/press-releases?id=452588F0-B71B-436C-8A6E-C5EDA7588E47

Presumptive condition list related to Burn Pits: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/va-will-now-recognize-some-veterans-illnesses-associated-with-exposure-to-burn-pits

Video of House Committee on Veterans' Affairs covering reproductive health: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygvDO0KdfHo

Military Time article referring to House Republicans request on data on VA abortions: https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2023/09/15/house-republicans-demand-data-on-va-abortion-procedures/#:~:text=Republican%20leaders%20from%20the%20House,to%20turn%20over%20the%20information.

Senate Joint Resolution 10: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/10/text

DOD's response to the Dobbs Decision: https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3195089/dod-announces-efforts-to-ensure-access-to-reproductive-health-care/

Policies related to the changes surrounding reproductive health: https://media.defense.gov/2023/Feb/16/2003163306/-1/-1/1/MEMORANDUM-CHANGES-TO-COMMAND-NOTIFICATION-OF-PREGNANCY-POLICY.PDF

https://media.defense.gov/2023/Feb/16/2003163307/-1/-1/1/MEMORANDUM-ADMINISTRATIVE-ABSENCE-FOR-NON-COVERED-REPRODUCTIVE-HEALTH-CARE.PDF

https://media.defense.gov/2023/Feb/16/2003163300/-1/-1/1/MEMORANDUM-TRAVEL-FOR-NON-COVERED-REPRODUCTIVE-HEALTH-CARE-SERVICES.PDF

RAND Corporation reports: https://www.rand.org/news/press/2022/09/13.html

https://www.rand.org/blog/2023/07/limiting-access-to-reproductive-health-care-may-undermine.html

Senator Tuberville's news over the DOD's New Abortion Policy: https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/in-the-news/gop-senator-places-holds-on-bidens-dod-nominees-over-pentagons-new-abortion-policy/

Update to military promotions during Senator Tuberville's block: https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1200705608/senate-tuberville-hold-military-promotions

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/12/politics/tuberville-military-hold-senate-700-hours-process/index.html

Letter from Secretary Austin to Senator Jack Reed regarding the new abortion policies: https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/dod_briefing_on_non-covered_reproductive_healthcare_policies.pdf

The text of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) H.R. 2670: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2670/text/eh

https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/mccarthy-bill-uses-debt-ceiling-to-force-harmful-policies-deep-cuts

https://www.c-span.org/video/?530878-3/house-session-part-2#

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/veterans-protest-closure-of-monuments-and-memorials/2013/10/13/adaf699c-342e-11e3-be86-6aeaa439845b_story.html

https://theweek.com/articles/819015/make-government-shutdowns-impossible-again

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-14/us-government-shutdown-definition-impact-history-explained

https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/population-profiles/veteran-beneficiaries.html

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2022-11-11/who-are-americas-veterans#:~:text=Veteran%20demographics%20are%20shifting%2C%20but,remains%20overwhelmingly%20male%20and%20white.&text=By%20Chris%20Gilligan-,Nov.,2022%2C%20at%201%3A21%20p.m.&text=The%20U.S.%20is%20home%20to,according%20to%202021%20Census%20data.

https://www.gao.gov/blog/what-continuing-resolution-and-how-does-it-impact-government-operations#:~:text=Continuing%20resolutions%20are%20temporary%20spending,results%20in%20a%20government%20shutdown.

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/11/07/impacts-and-costs-government-shutdown

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/09/us/politics/shutdown-government-costs.html

https://www.ustravel.org/press/federal-government-shutdown-would-cost-us-travel-economy-140-million-day

Rep. Lauren Boebert's statement:

https://www.tiktok.com/@11thhourmsnbc/video/7185307858073013550

2022 NDAA:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1605/text?s=5&r=5&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22national+defense+authorization+act+2023%22%7D

For this first episode, I cover the basics of legislation and particular issues in military and veterans' subjects.

For the background of Vanessa Guillen: https://www.nytimes.com/article/vanessa-guillen-fort-hood.html

How a bill becomes a law: https://kids-clerk.house.gov/grade-school/lesson.html?intID=17#:~:text=The%20Bill%20Is%20a%20Law,is%20enforced%20by%20the%20government.

The New Yorker article "What Calling Congress Achieves" by Kathryn Schulz: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/06/what-calling-congress-achieves

Congress's veto override against President Trump: https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-defense-policy-bills-85656704ad9ae1f9cf202ee76d7a14fd

Vanessa Guillen act on military sexual violence: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/29/vanessa-guillen-act-military-investigations/#:~:text=Under%20the%20new%20law%2C%20the,signed%20into%20law%20last%20summer.

Information on the Brandon Act: https://thebrandonact.org/

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3386581/dod-announces-implementation-of-the-brandon-act/

Honoring Our PACT Act: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/10/fact-sheet-president-biden-signs-the-pact-act-and-delivers-on-his-promise-to-americas-veterans/

https://www.va.gov/resources/the-pact-act-and-your-va-benefits/#:~:text=The%20full%20name%20of%20the,and%20post%2D9%2F11%20eras