Foreign-born recruits, promised citizenship by the Pentagon, flee the country to avoid deportation

The Pentagon has helped naturalized more than 10,000 foreign-born recruits since 2009. Now the agency might kill the program.

collapsedsquid

What kind of place is this when service doesn’t even guarantee citizenship anymore?

mitigatedchaos

I don’t approve cutting or cancelling this program. “Willing to fight, potentially to the death, to defend the national interest” is one of the exact sorts of immigrants you should want. I’m disappointed by this development, thought they realized this.

Source: collapsedsquid

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