I think we discussed this

[Gary Allan]

U.S. Military Will Offer Path to Citizenship

....the American military will begin recruiting skilled immigrants who are living in this country with temporary visas, offering them the chance to become United States citizens in as little as six months.

Immigrants who are permanent residents, with documents commonly known as green cards, have long been eligible to enlist. But the new effort, for the first time since the Vietnam War, will open the armed forces to temporary immigrants if they have lived in the United States for a minimum of two years, according to military officials familiar with the plan.

Recruiters expect that the temporary immigrants will have more education, foreign language skills and professional expertise than many Americans who enlist, helping the military to fill shortages in medical care, language interpretation and field intelligence analysis.



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[Pablo]

OR they can just wait until your guys open the border

 

[Turk]

Si Senor.

 

[mechtech2]

Not a bad idea, and could work out to a great advantage for the USA.
These would be select hand picked people, not drug dealers or illiterates. But lock 'em in for 6 years or so, and wring out what we can.

Remember that even slaves who fought in our Revolutionary War were often given legal freedom and citizenship!

 

[Gary Allan]

Originally Posted By: Pablo
OR they can just wait until your guys open the border

Like "your guys" didn't get numb, dumb, and blind about it too. Cheap labor for our champions of the free enterprise system. Wealth needed help ..and it got it

 

[Pablo]

I should have written your predicted comeback. But as usual, wrong guys. (Congress in 2006 -- with then-Sen. Barack Obama's support -- authorized nearly $3 billion for 670 miles of fencing stretching from California to Texas....) Some part of something tried to build a wall....but I suppose since it was actually working, it was "smoke and mirrors".

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To the Border Patrol agents stationed in Yuma Sector, there is no debate. To them, the fence is a success story. From a Vietnam War-vintage Huey helicopter, pilot Chad Smith points across the border to Mexico's Highway 2 and then to the barriers that help stop illegal immigrants from making a sprint into southern Arizona.

"You can see the triple-layer fencing," Smith tells us as he lowers the helicopter and hovers over what was once a major crossing point for illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. "Steel fence right on the border, the pedestrian fence about 90 feet north of that, and then the chain-link fence with the barbed wire."


But this side will win and we in the USA will lose:

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"We know that the way enforcement has gone has driven many people into the desert and caused more deaths. Needless deaths......."


Every other country on earth can protect it's sovereign borders. And we can't, because it's not humane. Bull Pucky.

I'm not against immigration. But illegally? No thanks. Most on the loose left and blind few business leaders, totally ignore the words "illegal", "criminal" "child molester", "rapist", etc when framing their arguments with "only the hard working good citizens"....

 

[Gary Allan]

I'm outta here!!

 

[Pablo]

Well - what was your point for bringing the subject up?

 

[Gary Allan]

..because
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I think we discussed this


Who threw out the "your guys" comment?

 

[GROUCHO MARX]

Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, in D.C. has the will to seriously address this issue.

Just as nobody will say that the home environment is the most important factor in a child's education.

 

[Pablo]

I did.

 

[Gary Allan]

Originally Posted By: GROUCHO MARX
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, in D.C. has the will to seriously address this issue.

Just as nobody will say that the home environment is the most important factor in a child's education.


It's the single most important thing. I would be the last to support throwing money at education for "benefit".

..OTOH, if you can't make vital households ..that is, breed better citizens ..make better citizens ..just what are you going to do?

 

[GROUCHO MARX]

Gary, there is no chance to solve a problem without identifying the problem. None.

That's all I'll say.

 

[Pablo]

Man you have no idea how many parents just totally ignore their kids. Scary.

 

[oilyriser]

There are many countries where military service is mandatory for all able bodied citizens.

 

[Gary Allan]

I'd normally think that it would be a good idea here. I think that they needed to start it about 50 years ago. Now I wonder just what scam would be incorporated into the benefits in social evolutions. It wouldn't end up like it should.

 

[Drew99GT]

Originally Posted By: Pablo
OR they can just wait until your guys open the border


Oh yea, 43 sure did a lot to secure the border and stop illegal immigration. What's that word........ah yes, amnesty. That dog don't hunt.

 

[Drew99GT]

Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
Cheap labor for our champions of the free enterprise system.


And votes.

Alberto Gonzalez wasn't picked because he was a legal genius.

 

[H2GURU]

Believe me, the military has no problem finding recruits these days as record un-employment gives them access to many young people. Most branches are highly technical and require more than being able to scratch your name on a line.

 

[Pablo]

Uh, did I say 43 did good?