Posted on 04/30/2025 11:07:36 AM PDT by packagingguy
The apparent silver lining: Those who failed to register could be charged with felonies and deported.
The Oversight Project sent a Freedom of Information request earlier this year to the U.S. Selective Service System seeking data on illegal aliens who failed to register for the draft.
Now with the responses in, it appears that the watchdog group's hypothesis — both that the SSS during former President Joe Biden's tenure made little effort to ensure that male illegal aliens ages 18-26 were registered for the draft, as required by law, and that multitudes of military-age male illegal aliens likely slipped through the cracks as a result — was right on the money.
Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, told Blaze News, "The fact that the Biden administration purposefully ignored having the biggest invasion of military-age males in American history fulfill their legal obligations is a massive scandal."
Immigrant men ages 18-25 must register for the draft within 30 days of arriving in the country. According to the SSS, this includes parolees, illegal aliens, legal permanent residents, asylum-seekers, refugees, and all men with visas of any kind that expired more than 30 days ago. Those on current non-immigrant visas are exempt so long as their visas remain valid until they turn 26.
The Oversight Project filed a FOIA request in late January for documents pertaining to whether inadmissible and deportable aliens have been registering for the Selective Service.
The request noted that the SSS stated on its website that it does "not now, or in the past, collect or share any information which would indicate a man's immigration status, either documented or undocumented"; that it lacked the "authority to collect such information"; and that it had no use for such information "irrelevant to the registration requirement."
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Not registering with the Selective Service is, according to the article, a felony.
If you are not a United States citizen and you commit a felony you are subject to deportation.
Maybe this is a stupid question, but why would we want ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIMINAL INVADERS in our military, even under the assumption that we needed to draft servicemen?
You can gain citizenship while serving in the military, but it is not automatic. One must apply for citizenship and serve honorably for a period of time.
Not stupid at all. Perfectly logical and just further proof we’ve lost our minds as a nation.
Correct.
On my ship, we had a Canadian, a Brit, and a Mexican. All three were great guys.
Same in the other branches.
Just think how many civil servants have spent an entire career working for the selective service. There has been no draft since about 1972. That is more than 50 years of an absolutely worthless organization. I hope those eliminates it if we have a war requiring a draft we can start it up again.
HAHAHAHA. Why would illegals pay taxes, register for the draft, or bother getting legal status when they have more benefits than citizens an entire political party that represents and advocates for them, free legal representation, medical care, education, and housing... ALL without any responsibilities of a citizen like the draft or paying taxes.
I don’t know why the law was written to put illegal aliens in the military draft.
Maybe they can be sent to the Donbas?
Government doesn’t know if any illegal aliens registered for draft, as they are required to do, during Biden surge.
Look for missing jeeps trucks and other items missing.
That’s a good question!
My wife has a Thai cousin in Thailand that speaks excellent English, he’s about 6’2” and 18. I talked to a US Navy recruiter about him enlisting, but to do so the cousin would have to 1st obtain a green card (which is a multi-year process).
With recruitment goals being exceeded no special effort should be made, but if spaces are available recruiting foreigners to the military with a path to US Citizenship (and green card) would seen an option. Kind of like the French Foreign Legion.
Females who transition to males are not required to register for the draft.
Males who transition to females are required to.
People who were assigned female at birth are not required to register with the Selective Service regardless of their current gender or transition status.
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