Be interested in your source for that figure. In any event, despite the fact that Obama's 2012 Dreamer amnesty is unconstitutional by my reading, the recipients (580,000 so far) are now legal under the law including being provided SSNs and work permits. So the military would have no choice but to accept them. They would be restricted in terms of security clearances.
The fact that we are kicking out tens of thousands of combat tested military as the military is downsizing makes it insane that we would recruit illegal aliens to take limited slots away from American citizens and legal immigrants is an obscenity.
Army speeding up recruitment of 'Dreamers''Since January, the Pentagon has enlisted 81 illegal immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children and qualify for President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, according to figures provided by the Army on Thursday.
Between January and April 8, only 43 had been enlisted, an Army spokesman said.
Since then, at least 38 more recruits have signed up. '