Comments on: Green Card Soldiers: How the US Army Recruits Them

By: XicanoPwr

XicanoPwr — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:05:58 +0000

As far as I know, Obama hasn’t rescinded the Executive Order. If I remember correct, it is within months. Technically it is within months, but you have to be on them, if not, there are people who are being deported.

By: me

me — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:05:23 +0000

so this policy still on? if u serve to the army u can get legal status?.. how soon?

By: George

George — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:05:09 +0000

entonses puedes entrar a las fuerzas armadas de los estado unidos de america aunque seas imigrande mexicano y una ves estando y cumpliendo meses o años que se otorga puedes tener tu residencia legal y permanente como ciudadano americano

By: XicanoPwr

XicanoPwr — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:09:21 +0000

That is a very good question Mitch. Not many people realize that in July 2002, President George W. Bush had issued an executive order that granted any non-naturalized soldiers serving honorably in the armed forces to apply for citizenship once they have enlisted. After 6 months, citizenship could be granted for them and their immediate family.

It was reported in 2006 that over 26,000 were naturalized through this Presidential Order.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:21:16 +0000

This may be a silly question, but I feel it is legitimate and worth asking. Does the US government have any policy in place where a foreign citizen can gain a green card visa if they sign up for the armed forces? Obviously there would have to be requirements met, but this, in theory, sounds like an interesting approach to immigration policy.

By: Green Card Lottery

Green Card Lottery — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:57:53 +0000

From a humanitarian perspective, our fellow human beings, who migrate to support their families, continue to suffer at the hands of immigration policies that separate them from family members and drive them into remote parts of the American desert, sometimes to their deaths. This suffering should not continue.

Now is the time to address this pressing humanitarian issue which affects so many lives and undermines basic human dignity. Our society should no longer tolerate a status quo that perpetuates a permanent underclass of persons and benefits from their labor without offering them legal protections.

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