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...same comedians. We were one nationality. We're ceasing to be that when you have hundreds of thousands of people who want to retain their own culture, their own language, their own loyalty. What do we have in common that makes us fellow Americans? Is it simply citizenship? Or is it blood, soil, history and heroes...
...enough to heighten the risk of doing business with cheap undocumented workers against the risk of being caught. It is going to be ineffective in curbing undocumented immigration, says Christina DeConcini, director of policy for the National Immigration Forum, a group advocating for comprehensive reform and a path to citizenship for undocumented workers. "The need for people to fill these jobs is very strong...
...citizens, he said that "if somebody's willing to risk their lives for our country, they ought to be full participants in our country." It was an executive order signed by Bush four years ago that allowed this trio, and 35,000 like them, to petition for U.S. citizenship as soon as they donned a U.S. military uniform, instead of waiting the customary three years. So far, 26,000 of them have achieved that goal. Since 9/11, the government has also waived the $330 application fee for active-duty troops and allows the troops to take the oath of citizenship...
...training costs. More than 20% of the nation's Medal of Honor winners have been non-citizens, and three of the last five chairmen of the Joint Chiefs -- the nation's top military officer -- have been immigrants or the sons of immigrants. Emilio Gonzalez, head of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, says he lacks "the eloquence to accurately describe the emotion I feel when signing a posthumous naturalization certificate." He has signed 75 of them for immigrant-soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq (26 other non-citizens also have died in combat; their families have up to two years...
...patriotism or the easier path to citizenship, the number of immigrants serving in the military has surged four-fold since 9/11, and is now about 2% of the force. There's even discussion of plucking foreign recruits for the U.S. military even before they've left their homeland. Kevin Ryan, a retired Army brigadier general now at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, raised some Pentagon eyebrows last week when he suggested the U.S. Army open a recruiting station in India's capital, Delhi. By tapping into non-citizens eager to wear a U.S. Army uniform, he wrote...