"I know, let's draft illegal aliens into the army to fight ISIS alongside our patriotic sons and daughters!

[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!

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Military to allow undocumented immigrants to serve

A small number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. will have an opportunity to join the military for the first time in decades under a new Department of Defense policy unveiled Thursday.

The new rules will expand an existing program allowing recruiters to target foreign nationals with high-demand skills, mostly rare foreign language expertise or specialized health care training.

For the first time, the program — known as Military Accessions in the National Interest, or MAVNI — will be open to immigrants without a proper visa if they came to the U.S. with their parents before age 16. More specifically, they must be approved under a 2012 Obama administration policy known as Deferred Action for Child Arrivals, or DACA.

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.

The Pentagon program is capped at 1,500 recruits per year. Officials say it's unclear how many of those might be unlawful DACA status immigrants as opposed to others who are also eligible for military service under MAVNI, including those with legal, nonpermanent visas such as students or tourists.

Estimates suggest between 1.2 million and 2.1 million children, teenagers and young adults in the U.S. have no legal immigration status but meet the criteria for the DACA program. Those targeted by recruiters under the MAVNI program likely will be immigrants with language skills critical to national security, such as Arabic, Chinese, Pashto or Persian.

But Pentagon officials don't know how many of those immigrants have actually learned their ancestral language to the proficiency required by the military.

"We're just not sure how many within that existing population of DACA would have the linguistic skills to qualify," said one defense official familiar with the policy change. "These are kids who entered the country at a fairly young age and have basically grown up in the United States, so the limit of their language talents would probably be the language that they received at home."

DACA status is granted by the Department of Homeland Security and includes a background check.

On average, the military recruits about 5,000 noncitizens each year, nearly all of them permanent U.S. residents, or so-called "green card" holders. Starting in 2006, the military began accepting some foreigners with nonpermanent visas, such as students or tourists, if they had special skills that are highly valued.

After entering military service, foreigners are eligible for expedited U.S. citizenship. Since 2001, more than 92,000 foreign-born service members have become citizens while serving in uniform.

The MAVNI program began in 2008 and remains a pilot program. The Pentagon notified Congress on Thursday 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.

The military services are not required to accept recruits under MAVNI. 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.

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Didn't we learn ANYTHING from the muslim Lt. colonel who slaughtered our soldiers pretending to be one of our own?

Has the pentagon forgotten Fort Hood?

Oh, I forgot, that wasn't a muslim terrorist, that was, "work place violence".

I'm beginning to realize that the jokes I've made about our government weren't jokes.

Folks our government IS a serious reality.

It's an EPIC FAIL!

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Nidal Malik Hasan

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Barrack Insane Obama

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HEY ! ! !  .  .  .  .  .  . GUYS! ! !

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Hiring our enemy to fight themselves has only a small chance of helping our side.

[Chris Horne]

WE learned a lot from terroist nadel (hussein obama's plant) and we will learn the brutality of muslims (all are radical) there is no such thing a a moderate muslim and islam is NOT a religion it is an ideology.  hussein obama is building and has been for six years HIS army.  WE will be over run when he leaves office (if he does) and we will die or convert.  our so called government of repubs hide the truth for their own gain and they know the truth.  Bachmann knew isis was in her state but hide it from them.  MI, WI and Co are controlled by drug cartels and muslims.  Kiss your Patriotic ass goodbye and go down fighting.