A Pentagon program for immigrants who can bring critical skills into the U.S. military in exchange for citizenship accepts over 80 percent of recruits, according to Army Secretary Mark Esper, contrary to reports that suggest the Pentagon has been increasingly rejecting applicants.
The Pentagon said Friday that contrary to what an Associated Press report has suggested, there are no new changes to a program for immigrants to gain U.S. citizenship through military service.
GOP leaders used a backroom maneuver to block a fast-track amnesty for hundreds of young illegals who join the military.
The Pentagon is struggling to process a surge of immigrants who signed up to serve in the military and gain expedited U.S. citizenship under an Obama administration pilot program and may cancel the program altogether.
Fox News reported on Tuesday that a Department of Defense (DOD) program that has recruited 10,000 foreign-born members of the U.S. Armed Forces since 2009 may have “potential security risks.”
More than 1,000 illegal immigrants accepted into the U.S. military pose impossible-to-fix security concerns, according to a report in the Washington Post.
Thirty House Republicans voted with Democratic legislators to let the Pentagon recruit illegal aliens, and also grant them American citizenship, even though the Army and other services are pushing tens of thousands of Americans out of the services.
The Pentagon is accelerating its program to recruit illegal immigrants and put them on a fast-track to citizenship, and the GOP leadership just blocked an amendment to stop the recruitment.
