Posted on 08/15/2013 6:53:52 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
Point is that today we are not permitting foreigners to enter the armed forces at all, unless they are already past the immigration queues. If they are legal there is no need for them to enlist to become citizens, its just a matter of applying after 2 years. So they aren’t really foreigners.
If we had a policy of permitting a small number of foreign applicants not already in the immigration track we could select some very high quality and very motivated people.
Why hasn’t this guy been deported yet?
A friend’s Irish father became an American by serving in the Marines, joining before he was a citizen. I hope the little guy doesn’t let the brainwashing affect him his whole life.
If the Irishman was already a legal resident but not a citizen, he was allowed to join the Marines. He did not HAVE to join the Marines to become a citizen.
But lacking status as a legal resident in the first place, he could not have joined the Marines. No Irishman in Dublin can go to the US Embassy and ask to enlist. He would have to first go to the immigration window and apply there.
Neither can this Mexican we are discussing. If he were to go back to Mexico he would be unable to enlist until he has waited his time in the immigration queues and his number comes up, probably by the time he’s 40. Or older.
The Filipinos who were permitted to enlist in the US Navy up to the late 1970’s could apply at the base at Subic, even if they had no immigration status, at which point they were granted immigration status. But this policy was, even at the time, restricted to Filipinos, and a rather small number of them (a couple of hundred a year I think). No Irish could have applied even back then. There has been no open recruitment into the US military since the immigration restrictions of the 1920’s.
I’d ask his father for more details on this, but he’s in Marine Heaven now. I didn’t say he had to join the Marines to become a citizen, only that that was how he became one. He already was indeed a resident. Whether he was a legal one or not, I don’t know, but I suspect he was here legally, considering his respect for this country.
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