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TexasLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-14-07 12:50 PM
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Officials Hope to Rekindle Interest in Immigration Provision (allowing enlistment by illegal aliens)
Source: American Forces Press Service

Officials Hope to Rekindle Interest in Immigration Bill Provision
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, June 11, 2007 –
A senior defense official expressed hope today that a provision in the stalled immigration bill that would have allowed some undocumented aliens to join the military won’t fall off the radar screen.

The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors, or DREAM, provision in the immigration bill was expected to help boost military recruiting, Bill Carr, acting deputy undersecretary of defense for military personnel policy, said today during a telephone conference with veterans’ group representatives.

The DREAM provision offered a way for high-achieving children of undocumented or illegal residents to join the military and, ultimately, become citizens, Carr explained. “In other words, if you had come across (the border) with your parents, yet you were a minor child and have been in the U.S. school system for a number of years, then you could be eligible to enlist,” he said. “And at the end of that enlistment, then you would be eligible to become a citizen.”

Because the provision would have applied only to the “cream of the crop” of students who have demonstrated top aptitude, it would have been “very appealing” to the military, Carr said. “It would have been good for readiness,” he said.

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Read more: http://www.defenselink.mil//news/newsarticle.aspx?id=46369
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atreides1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-14-07 12:57 PM
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1. Jannissaries
It was initially formed of Dhimmi (non-Muslims, originally exempted from the military service).
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-14-07 02:25 PM
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2. Quick! Pass the bill! We'll get to kill them!
And then they won't be a problem, see?

The Roman empire depended on recruited foreigners and mercenaries. Whatever happened to them?
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-14-07 02:27 PM
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3. Mercenaries
What a way for the military to take action

Remember what happened to Sadat???
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-14-07 03:19 PM
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8. some jobs regular Americans just aren't willing to do for those wages
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-15-07 05:46 AM
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9. Yes for $200.00 a week most red necked amerikans won't
lift a finger to kill some (insert racial epithet here) Heads.

However at $2,000.00 a day Blackwater has all the mercenaries they need

The problem is hundreds of thousands of mercenaries are needed. These numbers could be recruited from the scum of amerikan society but the cost would be prohibitive

This will keep the budget in check so Cheney and his fellow gangsters can siphon off Billions of $$$ in the Cream contracts
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Acadia Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-14-07 02:35 PM
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4. This is horrible. They use people us like they are not human.
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-14-07 02:54 PM
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5. American Foreign Legion needs you!
Edited on Thu Jun-14-07 02:54 PM by billyoc
Remember, service guarantees citizenship!
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Betsy Ross Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-14-07 03:10 PM
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6. But now that we know you and your family are illegal...
Seems like a major downside of "volunteering" for military duty. They reject you; they deport you.
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-14-07 03:19 PM
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7. making exceptions for conservative causes--spilling blood for Oil men
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strategery blunder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-15-07 05:54 AM
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10. Easy way to get rid of this...
Call it "amnesty."

Watch freeper heads explode. :crazy:
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