Illegal-Immigrant Soldiers Won’t Fix Our Military-Recruiting Crisis
By MATT SCHOENFELDT
December 10, 2023 6:30 AM
Senator Durbin’s proposal would hinder good order and discipline, strain resources, and detract from essential training for national-security preparedness.
Two of the many problems facing America today are an out-of-control immigration crisis and a failure of military-service branches to meet their recruiting targets. In recent remarks on the Senate floor, Senator Dick Durbin (D., Ill) outlined a ridiculous proposal to kill these two birds with one stone:
We have 780,000 DACA recipients . . . many of whom want to serve the country where they grew up. But there’s an obstacle — Congress. We have not given them a pathway to citizenship. This should be a pathway. You ought to open up your opportunities, across the board in the military, to Dreamers and to DACA recipients, who really want to serve this country.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/12/illegal-immigrant-soldiers-wont-fix-our-military-recruiting-crisis/
