[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.

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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.

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Then they wouldn't qualify would they?

The proposal, applicable to an estimated 750,000 undocumented residents of military age, stipulates that those who arrived in the United States before age 16, graduated from high school, and meet other qualifications could immediately enter the path to citizenship in exchange for at least two years' service in the armed forces.