93henfan wrote:
That’s quite shitty if it’s being done under unpublicized directive. People do get discharged from time to time due to their background checks or foreign contacts. Need more info on this. We’re in a hypersensitive time on the brown-people issue, so they could easily start piping off to create another media frenzy.
I’m all in favor of the path to citizenship via the military. We had two brown people in my platoon at Parris Island who could barely speak Ingles, but they could hump a combat load and shoot the **** out of an M-16. That’s good enough for the infantry.
Sounds like a bunch of fake news, yet the MSM has completely run with it based off the AP story..
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The Associated Press Totally Butchers The Story Of Discharges Of Immigrants From The Military
.....Then there is this bit of WTF: “In the suit, Calixto said he learned he was being kicked out soon after he was promoted to private second class.” There is actually no such thing as a private second class, much less the ability to be promoted to one....
.....There are two unifying points here. First, none of the people involved have actually gone to basic training–it is not unusual for enlistees in the Reserve and Guard to go to unit drills while awaiting their basic training date but this is voluntary and there is no pay. Second, all were denied admission to basic training because of security clearance issues.
As a rule, non-citizens cannot be granted a security clearance.....
......How did we get here?
In 2008, the Bush administration created a program called Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI). To get in, you had to be a legal resident of the US and have specialized skills needed by the Armed Forces. The program expired in 2010 but was restarted in 2012 with a two-year sunset provision. In September 2014, the Obama Defense Department extended it for two more years but they also opened it to DREAMers. So now we had illegal aliens entering the US military. You’ll note the person quoted here is the same person quoted in the AP article:
The decision to pair MAVNI with DACA sounded the death knell for the program, Stock said, because MAVNI was never intended as way to address the political hot potato of citizenship for undocumented long-term residents.
“They made a colossal error, frankly,” she said. “Instead of trying to recruit the DACAs separately, they tried to shove the DACAs into the MAVNI program. And that wrecked both programs.”
That’s because MAVNI sought candidates with hard-to-fill specialties, such as licensed medical professionals, or highly sought language skills.
DACA candidates rarely meet those qualifications, either because they are undocumented or because they have been in the U.S. so long.
“There are DACAs that speak the strategic languages, but there aren’t thousands of them,” Stock said.”
Bingo. Not only were they de jure illegal enlistments, they had no skills needed by the military AND they were probably going to have a hard time getting a security clearance which means they would be ineligible to enlist.
By September 2016 the program was being wound down because the Pentagon was discovering numerous “security risks” had been enlisted. In July 2017, the program died. This left a number of people who had enlisted under MAVNI in a sort of limbo."......."
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2018/0 ... -military/
). Right now the Repub tent is big...very big. So unless "conservatives" want to go 3rd party or start their own fringe right wing party then there is really no viable alternative for them.
The sound you hear is donor wallets zipping shut all over the state... 
