Military service: route to U.S. citizenship
As reported in the morning daily, hundreds of thousands of illegals would be eligible for the gift of citizenship by enlisting in the U.S. Military, if our congress is allowed to advance the nightmarish Dream Act.
DREAM is an acronym for Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act, granting in-state tuition to students who are in this country illegally.
Columnist Michelle Malkin covers this backdoor attempt at forcing amnesty on the American people who vigorously and successfully protested such measures earlier this year.
The United States Military Enlistment Standards includes tiered educational requirements:
Tier 3 – Non-High School Graduate. Individuals who are not attending high school and are neither high school graduates nor alternative credential holders. The services rarely accept a Tier 3 candidate for enlistment.
Yet a report by Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation provides these facts:
The education levels of illegal aliens are lower than those of legal immigrants. Approximately sixty percent of all adult Latin American or Mexican illegal immigrants lack a high school degree with only 7 percent possessing a high school diploma. By contrast, among U.S. native-born only 6 percent have failed to complete high school degrees and nearly a third have a college degree.
So where are all of the high school graduate illegal recruits going to be found? There is an immense underground market for counterfeit documents such as driver’s licenses, social security cards and birth certificates How difficult would it be to create diplomas, which are not government issued credentials?
September 17, 2007 at 4:11 pm
My wife and I were Young Republicans when we met in college. We have been in the GOP ever since….until George Bush, and our AZ delegation of Kyl, McCain, Flake and Co. made it their business to sell us out on amnesty and border security. One evening while discussing our frustrations, we realized we were both so unhappy with them that we could never again vote for any of the lot. The next day we reregistered. We could never be Democrats, but we are now Independents.
Sure, we’d rather have stayed with our old GOP, but we know that the party left us, not the other way around. Leaving didn’t make us happy, but it gave us the feeling we were doing something other than just taking it from our elected reps. Our days of donating to candidates who sell us out are over.
The other day, our son-in-law asked what took us so long. He had a bet going that not only would we reregister, but we’d do it a heck of a lot sooner.
September 18, 2007 at 9:30 am
I think you are mixing up a couple of different thoughts here. We are already required to provide education through high school to all comers. And, frankly, I think allowing an illegal to earn citizenship by fighting for out country is the correct move.
October 12, 2007 at 1:36 am
Its a really great thing to help these kids. They were brought here and more then likely didn’t understand the laws and outcomes of their parents choices. Every child no matter where they come from needs stabilty. They didn’t do this intentionally with due diligence and they just did what they were told. They deserve a chance at life too.
Stop the stupid hate and fear crap already.