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Does this seem honest to you?
"Selective Service does not collect any information which would indicate whether or not you are undocumented. You want to protect yourself for future U.S. citizenship and other government benefits and programs by registering with Selective Service. Do it today."
Back during the 18th and 19th century the U.S. government used to sometimes grab the new immigrants and put them in the service before they knew what was happening. That's why you've got
Irish immigrants as heroes in Mexico, because they switched sides being so disgruntled because of mistreatment as a Catholic minority. Immigrants since the Revolutionary War have always enlisted in the service as a fast track to citizenship. There were
German divisions in our Civil War. In the sense that immigration wasn't as codified then as now, I think we can still say it is dishonest to promise benefits to an illegal for registering for the draft. Luring illegals (who apparently can read English) with the promise that by registering for the draft their status within the country will be secure doesn't quite seem right to me. Not right for us; not right for them. They've already violated the law. What other law violators do we want in the armed forces?
HT
Where's your brain.
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I think you're misinterpreting the quote.
Selective Service isn't promising illegal immigrants "their status within the country will be secure," it's threatening them that if they don't register and try to legalize themselves later, they won't be able to.
For the record, many illegals can read English. Most of the teenage illegal immigrants Selective Service is targeting were taught to at the public schools you're so sure are failing.
Oh, and which "law violators" would you rather have in our armed forces? Illegal immigrants, or young adults with drug offenses and violent crimes on their records? Because the military is accepting applicants with criminal records now that their recruitment figures can't keep up with the war.
You may be correct about the interpretation of that. If that's the case, it needs to be worded differently. Do you have a source for the military accepting people with violent crimes and drug offences who haven't paid for them?
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