After covering Miguel Perez Jr. for years, former WBEZ immigration reporter María Inés Zamudio offers a remembrance of the ...

CHICAGO -- Former Army veteran Miguel Perez described what happened to him when he was deported to Mexico last Friday after losing his appeal to remain in the U.S. "'You see those two green arrows?

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Deported Illinois U.S. Army veteran Miguel Perez Jr. was back in Chicago Tuesday, walking the streets as a free man for the first time in a decade. Perez crossed the border into Texas ...

Sen. Tammy Duckworth had taken up Miguel Perez's cause. He served two combat tours in Afghanistan. He then developed a drug habit his family blames on PTSD and he went to prison for selling cocaine.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- U.S. Veteran Miguel Perez Jr. will be honored during a Veterans Day ceremony in Chicago's Little Village.

CHICAGO -- An Army veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan and had been in the U.S. since age 8 has been deported to Mexico because of a 2008 drug-trafficking conviction. Miguel Perez Jr., 39, who ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A group of soldiers, family, and community members came together Saturday to fight a deportation order for a former U.S. soldier. Army Private 1st class Miguel Perez, Jr., was born in ...

After covering Miguel Perez Jr. for years, former WBEZ immigration reporter María Inés Zamudio looks back on the activist’s ...