Over the next 17 months the Army will fire around 30,000 in an effort to draw down our troops due to budget pressures. Yet, at the same time the military just announced today that they will be hiring a small number of illegal immigrants.
Should the military fire a single soldier go just to hire one illegal immigrant should spark outrage.
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assanine , stupid & anti-american , but what else is new w/barry in charge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
none should be fired and none should be hired what part of ellegal don’t you get this is assanine
I already said this months ago! Obama was raised and groomed as a Muslim and tricked America first with his phony ass birth certificate and now is nearing perfect execution of his plan! But congress and enough Americans are brainwashed to allow it! We won’t wake up until it’s too late for most!
What kind of damn nonsense is this? I sure hope people are paying attention.
The dream army needs to go back to Mexico and save it!!!! Oh yea and hurry we do not want you!!!!
from the military.com:
“The Army has the highest number of unknowns – 9,055. The Navy has 6,531, the Air Force 444, the Marines one. Overall, 1,366,032 U.S. citizens and 35,662 legal immigrants serve in the U.S. military.”
Reaction: As a career Marine officer, I am damn proud that the Marine Corps only has one “unknown” (which is one too many) and for the fact that the Corps has met its recruiting goals for over 100 straight months. I am also scared and disgusted to read how the U.S. military has enough “unknowns” to man a standard Marine division. The article goes on:
“The case of an Army private from Mexico, who enlisted using a f**e green card and then served in Iraq, suggests some of the unknowns could be illegal immigrants. The military has no set procedure for handling these cases. U.S. congressional leaders are looking into the matter … Some experts see a security risk. Military officials say they’ve had few problems so far, but the 9/11 terrorist attacks raised concerns.”
Reaction: I believe it is safe to say that at least some of the unknowns are illegal immigrants. The military does have a set procedure for handling illegal and fraudulent enlistments; it is called discharge proceedings. I do not consider myself an expert, and I hope we do not need experts to see a security risk of having undocumented persons in our military ranks. Lastly, someone needs to fire those military officials whose concerns after the 9/11-raised terrorist attacks have resulted in only identifying an unacceptable amount of “unknowns” in our ranks. Then the article notes:
“Military officials check birth certificates, green cards or Social Security numbers to verify whether new recruits are legally in the country, said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jane Campbell, a U.S. Defense Department spokeswoman … ‘We hope to enhance those in the future, and are looking to do that in coordination with other government agencies,’ she said. ‘We want to make the process better.’ Among new military initiatives: Start checking Social Security numbers given by recruits – as diligent employers sometimes do.”
Reaction: How can someone have the guts to say that what we are doing allows us to “verify whether new recruits are legally in the country,” when we have over 16,000 “unknown” service members already? I am sure glad to be part of a 21st century transforming military that comes up with such out-of-the-box security ideas like becoming more like diligent civilian employers and actually start checking Social Security numbers given by recruits! Maybe we can also just ask the recruits if they are illegal aliens. But, I wonder if that is a violation of another “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. The article continues:
“Data on citizenship in the military, provided by the Army, comes from September 2003. Military officials were unable to explain why the citizenship of so many is hazy. ‘Of the number we have that are unknowns, I’m sure that some are citizens and some may not be citizens,’ said Lt. Col. Stan Heath, spokesman for the U.S. Army Human Resources Command … ‘We just don’t know’ how many may be illegal, Heath said. ‘We’re trying to clean up the database to make sure we have a good accountability. We are working on it.’
He downplayed security worries. ‘I haven’t heard of any incident where a soldier of unknown origin has done something to be concerned about.'”
Reaction: Why talk to an Army spokesman about how “unknowns” get into the Army, instead of talking to a Marine spokesman about how “unknowns” do not get into the Marine Corps? If the reporter recognized “unknowns” as an issue that needed to be reported on, why did he choose to focus more on the problem vice the solution? I am sorry, but I now have absolutely no respect for the incompetent U.S. Army Human Resources Command. Lastly, Lt. Col. Heath’s complacency about the potential threat posed by undocumented persons in the United States is eerily reminiscent of the mindset that helped permit the 9/11 attacks against our homeland. The article then states:
“Illegal immigrants are common in the United States – the government estimates there are more than 8 million – and institutions struggle to adapt. U.S. law bars employers from knowingly hiring the undocumented … Yet ‘with regard to homeland security and terrorism, it’s pretty obvious that this is a critical kind of position. You should want to know the status of who is serving in the military’ [said immigration scholar Noah Pickus, director of the Institute for Emerging Issues at North Carolina State University].”
Reaction: Yeah, I feel real secure knowing there are more than 8 million illegal aliens in my country. Well, Mr. Pickus gets my M.O.T.O. award (Master Of The Obvious) for seeing the connection between illegal aliens and homeland security. In case anyone was wondering, you do not need any advanced degrees from any university, nor should you have to consider the threat to homeland security from illegal aliens as an “emerging issue.” The article then reveals:
“U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials defer to the military in handling illegal immigrants. ‘If a military branch decides not to prosecute an individual for fraudulent entry, then they are considered eligible’ to become citizens, Homeland Security spokesman Chris Bentley said.”
Reaction: The law bars employers from knowingly hiring the undocumented, but does it allow employers to continue to keep the undocumented on their payrolls after they discover their illegal status? I learn something new every day: I did not know the military was in the decision-making process for immigration issues. When Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge talks about the need for increased cooperation among federal, state and local agencies to increase our homeland security, I do not think he had envisioned such “helpful” cooperation. The article continues:
“By May, military officials should begin new checks on the immigration status of recruits, said Gaylan Johnson, spokesman for the U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command… In the future, recruiters will conduct ‘prescreening.’ Then other federal authorities will conduct background reviews including electronic cross-checking of names and Social Security numbers with the federal Social Security administration, Johnson said… A better system has been in the works ‘for years,’ he said. ‘It got accelerated after 9/11.’ ”
Reaction: In my opinion, the “future” Mr. Johnson described should already be history. Yeah, 9/11 really accelerated his “better system.” And to think I thought it was slow.
After reading and reflecting on the Denver Post article, I found myself exhausted – mentally, physically, and emotionally drained. The threat of illegal aliens in our country and in our military is serious, and so is the unnecessary risk of literally being stopped dead in our complacent tracks.
Lt. Col. Matthew Dodd USMC is a Senior Editor of DefenseWatch. He can be reached at [email protected]. Please send Feedback responses to [email protected]. ©2004 DefenseWatch. All opinions expressed in this article are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect those of Military.com.
Oh so they’re going to make it easier for them to guard the boarders so their friends, cartels and ISIS can’t come into this country? Right! And I’m a jewish porn star with my last name O’Callahan. WTF IS RUNNING THIS COUNTRY AND COMING UP WITH ALL OF THESE BRITE IDEAS.
shot them all
The military and congress needs to overthrow, jail trial for treason and multiple violating actions against the constitution