This has been going on for quite awhile. Why is this suddenly news now?
This is from 2008
Immigrants in the U.S. Armed Forces migrationpolicy.org
What's your point. It was wrong then too.
Immigration Policy & Recent Legislation
- Military services and USCIS have worked together to streamline the citizenship application process for service members.
- In July 2002, the President issued an executive order that made noncitizen members of the armed forces eligible for expedited US citizenship.
- Revisions in the US citizenship law in 2004 have allowed USCIS to conduct naturalization interviews and ceremonies for foreign-born US armed forces members serving at military bases abroad. According to USCIS data from April 2008, more than 5,050 foreign-born service members have become citizens during overseas military naturalization ceremonies while on active duty in countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Kenya, as well as in the Pacific aboard the USS Kitty Hawk.
- Since September 2001, USCIS has naturalized more than 37,250 foreign-born members of the armed forces and granted posthumous citizenship to 111 service members
- Immigrants in the Military - Fact Sheet OneAmerica
Immigrants an Non Citizens in the US Armed Forces
Exactly what I said. Having difficulty with the concept of day late and dollar short?
I'm having difficulty with you thinking that listing a history on the matter is somehow an argument for it.
"In July 2002, the President issued an executive order that made noncitizen members of the armed forces eligible for expedited US citizenship." --- That is subversive. The president is not a king, and he should not be handing out citizenship as if it is his to give away. He is not above the law; and that is an abuse of the executive order power.