Posted on 06/17/2016 4:00:27 PM PDT by lqcincinnatus
In a break from previous votes on the issue, the House on Thursday rejected two GOP proposals to prevent the Obama administration from enlisting young illegal immigrants to serve in the military.
More than 30 Republicans with more centrist views on immigration joined all Democrats in opposing the two amendments offered to a Defense Department spending bill. The amendments failed narrowly with votes of 207-214 and 210-211, respectively.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
In the olden days, an illegal immigrant could slip into the country, join the military, serve honorably, and be discharged as a US Citizen.
That has changed since then.
“...the GOP did what the Dems do. They wanted the bill to pass but also wanted to look like they opposed it,...”
Exactly !
So sad. That generation of men felt it instinctively. They had lived too intensively for too many years to fall back to sleep. My generation never woke up.
This is you get the troops to shoot their own people, Because they are not their own people...
The Enemy is within and until we deal with that Enemy we will Never be able to Deal with the Enemy’s outside the Nation.
I served with illegal immigrants in the Army in 66-67. They were motivated by their anti-communist, anti-Castro ideology. But they were also promised that an honorable discharge would get them a path to citizenship.
Illegals in the military as a path to citizenship had existed ever since the status of illegal immigrant was created in the 1920s.
Yes, but they were not intent to overthrow our country.
So these people who come into our country in violation of our laws, don’t share our culture or values and in too many cases actively campaign for secession/conquest - yeah, let’s teach these people how to fight.
Good idea Congress. :)
Muslims at grenade practice . . .
‘oops! . . . snicker . . . BOOM!’
Lets load up the military with MS13 members
That website locked up my computer loading ads for five minutes!!! Is there a clean list of who voted on this -— who the 30 were??? I suspect my critter is on it.
This is sheer madness!
Let me know if you get a reasonable answer.
The Federal Government, controlled by the Uniparty, is the enemy. The States must protect themselves and their people.
We have a foreign exchange student in the disgraced White Hut.
The Republicrat Party is DEAD. The Democrat Party is dying.
I ended up in the emergency room with high blood pressure after the 2012 stolen election. I told my husband (a legal immigrant and now a US citizen) that my country was done. He said, ‘ it will be all right’. I’m still waiting for it to ‘be all right’.
Active Duty ping.
Meaning ISIS is now invited into the US military?
Just back from a graduation party where I had a longish discussion with a fifty-something nephew - even in his relatively short lifespan (compared to mine at seventy plus) he was lamenting the way he’s seen the country deteriorate - we ended up agreeing that the Great Experiment has pretty much failed - people as a group are too dumb and/or emotionally stunted to rule themselves......
We are allowing non-citizens to join the military? It’s all over; we’re done.
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