Do you realistically think we can get the millions of illegals in our country out like magic?
So newt proposes that if an illegal joins our military, serves our country and risks his or her life on our behalf, that makes him soft on immigration?
Tell you what ill take a legalized immigrant marine for my neighbor over any damn Legal occupier scum that not only wouldn’t serve our country but wants to destroy it.
If there are limited slots for new enlistees, would you give these illegal aliens preference over US citizens?
That's likely the situation that will exist in the near future and it's dumb to even be talking (and pandering) about taking illegals into the military.
You are adopting the left-wing media's La Raza talking points. There is not a choice between amnesty and "deporting 12 million people". There is a middle ground. Attrition by enforcement. Madatory national E-Verify coupled with harsh AZ-style employer sanctions. Cutting off all welfare benefits for illegals. Increase workplace raids to Bush levels and then double them. Let the states like Arizona and Alabama enforce the laws the Feds refuse to enforce. Deport as many illegals as possible. And ban in-state tuition for illegal aliens.
So newt proposes that if an illegal joins our military, serves our country and risks his or her life on our behalf, that makes him soft on immigration?
Newt is blowing smoke up your ass. He has previously supported the DREAM Act - which had ZERO verification that an illegal was actually brought here as an child. Just as in 1986, such an act would result in millions more crossing the border and then later claiming they were brought here "by no fault of their own".
Tell you what ill take a legalized immigrant marine for my neighbor over any damn Legal occupier scum that not only wouldn’t serve our country but wants to destroy it.
Again, false choices. Illegals do not want to serve in the military. The vast majority come here, take American jobs, and send 70% of what they earn back home. And Dick Durbin's rhetoric that we "need" these "Dreamers" to fill our military positions is absurd. We are CUTTING BACK positions, not adding them (SEE: Military Cutbacks Undermine Major Rationale for “DREAM Act”). Will illegals get preferential treatment for them over U.S. citizens. The entire argument is absurd, and a smokescreen by supporters of blanket amnesty to get folks like YOU to lower your guard and trust them.