[LifeOrGoods?]

Don't be surprised if friendly fire incidents increase.

[cripplecreek]

If you don’t support amnesty you want America to lose!!!!

[/pro amnesty spinmeister mode]

[P-Marlowe]

I’m not particularly opposed to this provision. Foreigners who are willing to give their lives for this country should be granted citizenship at the end of their service.

[3AngelaD]

It also woudl grant their dependents full benefits and give them the right to bring their relatives into the country.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

I would have to question the priorities/motives of an immigrant service member.

Citizens fight their country. Which country does the illegal serve?

Rome tried this also - you see how that turned out.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

Yeah, swell. And what will be the cost to taxpayers for a fully bilingual DoD support infrastructure?

Since English isn't mandatory, we just can't hurt anybodys' feelings, can we???? [/sarc]

[gubamyster]

ping

[gusopol3]

just like the Irish in the Civil War.

[dennisw]

A pathway to cannon fodder

[Dante3]

This is perverted.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

>>A little-noticed provision in the proposed immigration bill would grant instant legal status<<

They already get “instant legal status” without any military service in the amnesty bill. It seems to me that the “instant amnesty” in the bill would actually remove that incentive for illegals to serve.

[JCEccles]

This doesn't bother me.

This is earned citizenship.

[wolfcreek]

750,000? Hmmmmm?

How soon can we get them trained and lined up on the Iranian border?

[kabar]

little-noticed provision in the proposed immigration bill would grant instant legal status and ultimately full citizenship to illegal immigrants if they enlist in the US military, an idea the Pentagon and military analysts say would boost the Pentagon's flagging efforts to find and recruit qualified soldiers

Most of them are high school dropouts and don't speak English. The idea that the miliary is salivating over this new source of volunteers is nonsense.

[jimt]

There was a program of this sort in 1974 when I enlisted. A soldier I knew in basic was from the Phillipines, and was expecting to become a citizen at the end of his enlistment.

This is a GOOD idea amid a plethora of horrible ones in the amnesty bill.

[Shots]

LOL so let me get this right we will make them legal then eventually they will be assigned to the national guard which in turn will help protect our southern borders???? I do not think so!

[Dante3]

What a perfect setup for terrorists, drug dealers, and assorted deviants.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

It will give the globalists a military who will shoot American citizens when they get uppity.

Right now, they can’t depend on the military to do that.

[Cacique]

predicted he would try to resurrect it and call it something else. We have to keep our guard up. We need to keep the pressure up. We have no choice but to fight. The oligarchy wants cheap labor and a destruction of the middle class and the millionaire democrats want votes they can count on. A marriage made in HELL.

STAGE TWO is to go after the people who hire illegals. Start giving them fines and arresting them. Just catch ten or 100 of them on the nightly news. The magnet will dry up and most of the 12 million will go home by themselves.

As an addendum, we should anonymously call the IRS, people working "off the books" means taxes ain't being paid. Make anonymous fliers and hang them around the neighborhood, name names. It's time to embarrass these bustards, whether they give to the GOP or Rats, we don't need them.

CALL! CALL! CALL! CALL! AND KEEP CALLING TILL THE LINES FRY!

WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! TILL YOU RUN OUT OF INK IN YOUR PEN!

Bombard the Democrats as well, especially the ones that ran on an anti illegal immigration plank and the ones in marginal districts who could be vulnerable. keep pounding on them. This is a bipartisan issue not a Conservative or Liberal issue BUT AN AMERICAN issue.

STOP AMNESTY NOW!! WE CAN DO IT!!

The best way to stop Shamnesty

[freespirited]

This article is unbelievably dishonest. It omits a critical fact. As an alternative to the two years of military service, eligible illegals can substitute two years of community college (or other college).

Now that’s absurd IMO—and the advocates of the shamnesty bill are trying to conceal it and play up the benefits to the military instead. Those using the two years of college option would also become eligible for all sorts of higher ed assistance (including instate tuition) at huge cost to the taxpayers. No one wants to talk about that.

They would get green cards in three years, pay no fine, and would not have to “touch back” to their country of origin. Keep that in mind the next time you hear Bush, Graham Chertoff, McCain et al claim that the process would take 13 years, involve a 5K fine and require people to leave the country.