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Immigration bill offers a military path to US dream ("instant legal status")
The Boston Globe ^
| June 16, 2007
| Bryan Bender
Posted on 06/16/2007 8:41:46 AM PDT by BornInASmallTown
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To: BornInASmallTown
>>A little-noticed provision in the proposed immigration bill would grant instant legal status<<
They already get “instant legal status” without any military service in the amnesty bill. It seems to me that the “instant amnesty” in the bill would actually remove that incentive for illegals to serve.
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posted on
06/16/2007 9:12:44 AM PDT
by
ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
(Illegals: representation without taxation--Citizens: taxation without representation)
To: BornInASmallTown
This doesn't bother me.
This is earned citizenship.
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posted on
06/16/2007 9:14:23 AM PDT
by
JCEccles
To: JackRyanCIA
Yeah man. That includes OTMs also, like Muslims etc. I think its absolutely moromic. But we have guys like you that think its cool, so it must be.That's a good point--I hadn't thought through the Muslim issue. As long as we pretend Muslims are the same as everyone else, it's a big problem.
It's a pity that an approach that works really well for assimilating almost every group would be torched because of legitimate concerns that Muslims would abuse it.
So I amend my earlier answer. I think its a good idea as long as we exclude Muslims.
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To: JackRyanCIA
I don't oppose awarding citizenship for immigrants who serve in our military. I think they need to be legal immigrants.
Maybe legal immigrants need 2 years. Illegal immigrants that make it to a recruiter and are safe in the sancuary of Camp Lejeune or Twentynine Palms before the ICE deportation crew gets them, they have to serve at least 4 years.
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posted on
06/16/2007 9:22:15 AM PDT
by
FreeAtlanta
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To: BornInASmallTown
750,000? Hmmmmm?
How soon can we get them trained and lined up on the Iranian border?
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posted on
06/16/2007 9:26:18 AM PDT
by
wolfcreek
(AMNESTY: See what BROWN can do for you..)
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To: expatguy
“Al Qaeda and the world know fully well of our porous land border and the lack of resolve we have in securing it and our day of reckoning is coming soon. This time around we will have no one to blame but ourselves.”
You nailed it!
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posted on
06/16/2007 9:29:29 AM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
To: JackRyanCIA
“They are trespassers. We havent a clue who they are.
We aint talking about a rational number of immigrants, we are talking about a whole shit load of trespassers. Many of which hate America. There are a million score of these cockroaches that have invaded us. Give then citizenship via military service and we have the Mexican Army here, defending us. What in the hell is wrong with you people? You take stupid pills or what?”
Good point!!
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posted on
06/16/2007 9:33:06 AM PDT
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stephenjohnbanker
( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
To: JackRyanCIA
“Oh great! Now lets give them guns and training”
Next Bush will want the illegals to police the borders........
ROTFLMAO!!
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posted on
06/16/2007 9:35:27 AM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
To: BornInASmallTown
little-noticed provision in the proposed immigration bill would grant instant legal status and ultimately full citizenship to illegal immigrants if they enlist in the US military, an idea the Pentagon and military analysts say would boost the Pentagon's flagging efforts to find and recruit qualified soldiersMost of them are high school dropouts and don't speak English. The idea that the miliary is salivating over this new source of volunteers is nonsense.
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posted on
06/16/2007 9:36:59 AM PDT
by
kabar
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To: vetsvette
In Mexico, this is quite widely known.
To: BornInASmallTown
There was a program of this sort in 1974 when I enlisted. A soldier I knew in basic was from the Phillipines, and was expecting to become a citizen at the end of his enlistment.
This is a GOOD idea amid a plethora of horrible ones in the amnesty bill.
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posted on
06/16/2007 9:43:42 AM PDT
by
jimt
To: JCEccles
We already do this. If you pick this bill apart you can find a few good things but look what else has to go with it. Funny, they blow their horn about this but don’t mention anything about the bad stuff we aren’t supposed to know about. I would be ok with this if it stood on it’s own but not if it is included in their precious bill.
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To: jimt
This is a GOOD idea amid a plethora of horrible ones in the amnesty bill.
The Romans used to think so too.
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To: BornInASmallTown
LOL so let me get this right we will make them legal then eventually they will be assigned to the national guard which in turn will help protect our southern borders???? I do not think so!
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posted on
06/16/2007 9:51:32 AM PDT
by
Shots
(If you see Known Illegal Immigrants it is your civic duty to report them)
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