Posted on 12/19/2010 2:30:01 PM PST by Michael Tergent
A full time college student in Florida recently announced his status as an illegal immigrant at a public rally. Jose Salcedo, an elite student at Miami Dade College, fearlessly proclaimed his ‘undocumented’ status in what was said to be a rally of support for the proposed, and recently delayed, DREAM Act. The Dream Act proposes that illegal immigrants brought here when they were babies, toddlers or teens who end up enrolled in college or in the military, be granted citizenship. Salcedo’s announcement and the DREAM Act are further examples of our contradictory immigration policies and enforcement. For this student to have so shamelessly confessed to a crime in public and for Congress to consider modifying a standard which is already so ambiguous, only complicates and confuses the immigration issue. This ambiguity of policy, law, law enforcement, and basic decision making is why it’s difficult to have an informed position on immigration as there is no way of knowing how our current laws would even work because they’re not enforced.
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“An illegal should never be allowed in the US Military...”
Disagree. If they are willing to lay their lives down for the country in order to obtain a green card in hot zones such as Afghanistan, so be it. Reminds me of the article many years ago of the Marine who died in Iraq who actually was NOT an American citizen nor resident and the Marines steadfastly buried their comrade in full Marine honors in a Mexican cemetery ( as requested by the mother) while the locals booed.
IF they are illegally in this country, they shouldn’t be allowed to serve...they should be deported...why would we need mercenaries in our military?
if they are willing to put their lives for America, then why not? I have a bigger problem with illegals who do nothing to but leech off American taxpayers AND American liberals who ARE citizens but hate the country in return.
and where the did “mercenaries’ come into this discussion?
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