Obama Enacts Executive Action to Allow Some DREAMers to Serve in Military

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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/25/Obama-Enacts-Exec-Action-to-Allow-Some-DREAMers-to-Serve-in-Military

 by Tony Lee 25 Sep 2014, 3:05 PM PDT

On the day Attorney General Eric Holder announced his resignation, President Barack Obama enacted an executive action on Thursday to allow certain DREAMers to serve in the military and be put on an expedited path to citizenship.

Obama vowed to hold off on broad executive amnesty that would also potentially grant temporary work permits to millions of illegal immigrants until after the midterm elections to help Senate Democrats retain the Senate. According to the Military Times, this executive action will expand MAVNI (Military Accessions in the National Interest) "to target foreign nationals with high-demand skills, mostly rare foreign language expertise, or specialized health care training."

The program, which admits foreigners with specialized medical or language skills, will now be "open to immigrants without a proper visa if they came to the U.S. with their parents before age 16" and have been approved for Obama's 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

The MAVNI program "is capped at 1,500 recruits per year," and Obama's executive action "may be the first phase of a broader government-wide effort to ease pressure on immigrants and create new paths to citizenship," according to the Times, because "after entering military service, foreigners are eligible for expedited U.S. citizenship." The Times noted that "since 2001, more than 92,000 foreign-born service members have become citizens while serving in uniform."

In May, Jessica Wright, the Acting Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness at the Pentagon, testified before a Senate subcommittee hearing in Chicago that the Obama administration was working to expand MAVNI, which started in 2008, to include DREAMers. Soon after, Pentagon officials reportedly reached an agreement to allow some DREAMers in the program, but the Department of Defense did not make a formal announcement until Thursday, when it notified Congress "that the program, which was due to expire at the end of this fiscal year, will be extended for another two years and will for the first time include DACA-status immigrants."

According to the Military Times, "the military services are not required to accept recruits under MAVNI." The publication notes that "in recent years, the Army has been the only service to accept a significant number of recruits under the program. The Air Force has accepted only a few and the Navy and Marine Corps have not sought MAVNI recruits in recent years."

Pro-amnesty advocates who want more from Obama on immigration were still less than pleased. The pro-amnesty America's Voice group called the move "weak," saying "this foray into executive action is a fig leaf that pretends to help Dreamers but will, in fact, help virtually no one."

"The Obama Administration should go well beyond the MAVNI program and expand DACA and enlistment policies to include as many DREAMers and aspiring Americans possible," the group said in a statement. "If today’s measure is any indication of the type of executive actions we can expect to see from the President after the elections, we are not impressed."

[jmyrlefuller]

Foreign aliens in the armed forces. What could possibly go wrong? /sarc

[truth_seeker]

Foreign aliens in the armed forces. What could possibly go wrong? /sarc

More relevantly, the story says since 2001 there have been 92,000 foreign born people that got citizenship, in part by their service to our country.

I'll just leave it that I hold those 92,000 people in much greater regard, than those who would diminish their service while not even serving themselves.

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Going the Way of Rome: Illegal Immigrants in the Military

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Michael Minkoff — 0 Comments   
 
Want more proof that the United States is a decadent empire in its twilight years? Here it is. We’ve decided to allow a select group of illegal immigrants (as many as 2 million fit the description) to enlist in the military. This seems to be the first step in Obama’s promise to find other paths to grant illegal immigrants citizenship:


The new Pentagon policy may be the first phase of a broader government-wide effort to ease pressure on immigrants and create new paths to citizenship. President Barack Obama, frustrated with the failure of Congress to pass any substantial immigration reform, has vowed to aggressively use his presidential authority to change the way immigration policies are carried out.

That’s scary. And it’s also not unprecedented. Rome did the same thing. And it eventually ruined her. Here’s the story. When the Roman Empire was at its zenith, Roman citizenship was quite prized because Roman citizens got a bunch of free stuff and a different set of rights. You could be born into Roman citizenship, or you could buy it, or (near the end) you could get citizenship by fighting in the Roman military.

And that’s where the real problems began. Because eventually, a large percentage of the Roman army really didn’t have much loyalty to Rome—they were after all not much better than mercenaries. So one day, when Rome needed protection from an invasion, it called in the military. Who, instead of protecting Rome, sacked her instead:


For most of its history, Rome’s military was the envy of the ancient world. But during the decline, the makeup of the once mighty legions began to change. Unable to recruit enough soldiers from the Roman citizenry, emperors like Diocletian and Constantine began hiring foreign mercenaries to prop up their armies. The ranks of the legions eventually swelled with Germanic Goths and other barbarians, so much so that Romans began using the Latin word “barbarus” in place of “soldier.” While these Germanic soldiers of fortune proved to be fierce warriors, they also had little or no loyalty to the empire, and their power-hungry officers often turned against their Roman employers. In fact, many of the barbarians who sacked the city of Rome and brought down the Western Empire had earned their military stripes while serving in the Roman legions.
 

By the way, that last paragraph is from an article, “Eight Reasons Why Rome Fell,” which reads like a daily newspaper of current American events. Just saying.

There are a huge number of reasons—historical and logical—why military service should not be the price tag on citizenship. But you know what they say about not learning history and being doomed to repeat it and all. But far worse than that is learning history and being doomed to watch everyone else ignore you and repeat it anyway.

Read more at http://lastresistance.com/7492/going-way-rome-illegal-immigrants-military/#CB8vEKR78MtxEIsQ.99