Ricardo Reyes, a veteran and the executive director of VetsForward, speaks out against the deportation of José Barco in front of the local ICE office in Phoenix, Ariz., on Nov. 14, 2025. Barco served two tours in Iraq and was previously granted asylum. (Photo by Gloria Rebecca Gomez/Arizona Mirror)
In the early morning hours of Nov. 14, after almost a year of being shuffled between immigration…