[Norm Lenhart]

Professor D,

Please how an “Illegal” can lawfully serve in the military.
Either they aren’t illegal, or they are LEGALLY on a LEGAL and current path to citizenship. An “Illegal” by definition, cannot.

I think you are totally FOS that you are a Prof/teacher of anything with logic like that.

[gov_bean_ counter]

So we are going to expect people to take an oath to protect and defend our constitution (and mean it) when they didn't respect same when the entered this country?

[DRey]

Happens all the time, Norm. Here’s one link of many. http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3271/

[DRey]

Sorry to burst your bubble.

Here's another one.

More than 20,000 non-citizens are on active duty in the U.S. armed forces. Dozens of U.S. immigrant soldiers have died in Iraq. Immigrants have braved the battlefields of war since the dawn of America. And, they’ve held their own. Immigrants have earned more than 20 percent of the 3,406 Congressional Medals of Honor, according to the National Immigration Law Center. The U.S. government re-paid this commitment in 2002, when President Bush signed an executive order allowing immigrant soldiers to apply for citizenship as soon as they enlist. They previously had to wait three years.

Here's the link: http://blog.chron.com/immigration/2008/03/should-illegal-immigrants-serve-in-u-s-military/