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U.S. Military Will Offer Path to Citizenship

jamesrage said:
As long as they are here legally when they enlist I do not care if they are offered citizenship in return. If they are here illegally then they should get one way ticket to the furthest point in their country.
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Really? I generally agree with you on most immigration issues, but I think illegals should be fully allowed to serve. It shows a dedication and commitment to the nation and our values and they should be rewarded for it with citizenship.
 
TheNextEra said:
That's if you feel all illegal immigrants will be put in the front lines. There are MANY MANY people that can qualify for other positions other than front line duties.
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Putting them on the front lines, wasn't really the point.
 
What about foreign troops combating terrorism? Would they be made citizens in two years?
 
dirtpoorchris said:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/us/15immig.html


Besides all the dividing... Didn't Rome fall also from too much foreign recruiting after their people where dishearted an not willing to join the militairy? I hope this doesn't start morphing into that.
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Immigrants have always had the opportunity to serve, this is just providing additional incentive. The military must be getting desperate, which is not a good sign for morale. I don't blame native citizens for not wanting to join right now, and take place in unjust war.
 
Whoa, everyone hold on there. You have to read the fine print and understand a bit about the military first.

helping the military to fill shortages in medical care, language interpretation and field intelligence analysis.
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Ok, first of all you need to understand that the military has always been in short supply in the medical field even during peacetime. Recruiters make heavy attempts to recruit future doctors in their residency or earlier stages promising all kinds of bonuses, debt payments, and special compensation. The military just doesn't have the budget to compete with what they can make in the real world so they try to find different methods to be attrative. Skilled foreigners are still going to be retrained according to military medical doctrine like regular American citizens so there isn't too much of a loss there.

The other two categories are pretty straight forward. Interpreters and foreign nationals who help the US often face harsh reprecussions for their actions and other than money have little incentive to help. The US has also always been short in this area. They launched an initiative a while back putting some data on the web to allow people to take a crack at interpretation and analysis. Those that contributed often were contacted and offered jobs. However, this still didn't get us the field capable agents needed. This covers a short coming that the US has always had while bolstering out analysis capabilities. We learned this part in Iraq recently.
 
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I, for one, welcome our new-found foreign overlords patrolling are homeland. o_O
 
Sounds like a prelude to reinstating the draft. Obama talked about National Service in exchange for education and other entitlements.

Obama has asked the Pentagon to cut it's budget by 10%.

Robert Kagan - No Time to Be Cutting the Defense Budget - washingtonpost.com


Soldiers in the town hall meeting said they worried the Obama administration would cut military funding.

The soldiers have every right to be concerned, cutting funding in the middle of two wars, as we get set to deploy 30k more troops to Afghanistan. Yet we'll allocate more money to save the salt marsh harvest mouse. Typical liberal slapnut thinking.


Mullen: 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan - Military- msnbc.com
 
RightOfCenter said:
Really? I generally agree with you on most immigration issues, but I think illegals should be fully allowed to serve. It shows a dedication and commitment to the nation and our values and they should be rewarded for it with citizenship.
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The government is supposed to be deporting illegals not rewarding them with a chance at military service and citizenship. Illegals should be afraid to walk into any government office.Illegals do not show a dedication and commitment to the nation and our values, coming here legally and staying legally would show those things.
 
jamesrage said:
The government is supposed to be deporting illegals not rewarding them with a chance at military service and citizenship. Illegals should be afraid to walk into any government office.Illegals do not show a dedication and commitment to the nation and our values, coming here legally and staying legally would show those things.
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I don't think most immigrants have much of a choice. Yes, they should be deported, but those that are willing to make the commitment to serve should be rewarded.
 
Recruitment and retention have exceeded expectation in almost every phase of the War since 9/11/2001.

The "stretched thin.." line is a load of BS.

Its not a new policy either..


Tripe.
 
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