The United States Armed Forces have long offered a path to citizenship for permanent residents of the USA. A new program intends to encourage enlistment by temporary residents, offering citizenship in as little as six months, and an eventual target of one in four enlistees being foreign-born.
I'm all for soldier-interpreters- and using the military as an Americanization tool while we use an immigrant's linguistic abilities and cultural knowledge to aggressively bend those cultures to our will is a great double bang for the taxpayer buck. But if the idea is to internationalize our military with soldiers who might be less likely to have a problem being deployed domestically to violate our rights (Second Amendment anyone?, then I'm concerned. One in four seems kind of high to me (One in six + the current 10%).
Immigrants who are permanent residents, with documents commonly known as green cards, have long been eligible to enlist. But the new effort, for the first time since the Vietnam War, will open the armed forces to temporary immigrants if they have lived in the United States for a minimum of two years, according to military officials familiar with the plan.
Recruiters expect that the temporary immigrants will have more education, foreign language skills and professional expertise than many Americans who enlist, helping the military to fill shortages in medical care, language interpretation and field intelligence analysis.
If the pilot program succeeds as Pentagon officials anticipate, it will expand for all branches of the military. For the Army, it could eventually provide as many as 14,000 volunteers a year, or about one in six recruits.
NY Times Article
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