Immigrant Vets Face Deportation Despite Service

[bobbyw24]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Up to 8,000 non-citizens enlist in the U.S. Armed Forces every year and serve alongside American troops.

If they die while serving, they are given citizenship and a military funeral. If they live and get in trouble with the law, they can get be ensnared by a 1996 immigration law that greatly expanded the list of crimes for which non-citizens can be deported.

http://www.newsmax.com/US/US-Banished-Veterans/2010/10/24/id/374711

[MelissaWV]

eh... It's the country being a victim of its own Political Correctness.

If you give an immigrant automatic citizenship once they are done with a certain length of military service, there are questions of what benefits they (and any family they have) will get, questions of healthcare, etc.. Beyond that, the big thing is that the US doesn't want to seem like it's encouraging indentured servitude. Buy your citizenship by risking your life. Work for us for awhile and you'll be given your freedom.

It has a certain familiarity to it.


PADDY'S LAMENTATION

Well it's by the hush me boys and sure that's to hold your noise
Listen to poor Paddy's sad narration
Well I was by hunger pressed and in poverty distressed
So I took a thought, I'd leave the Irish nation
Well I sold me horse and cow, me little pig and sow
Me little plot of land I sold to part with
And me sweetheart Bid McGee, I'm afraid I'll never see
For I left her there that morning broken-hearted

Chorus:
Here's you boys, now take my advice
To America I'll have you not be comming
There is nothing here but war
Where the murdering cannons roar
And I wish I was at home in dear old Dublin

Well, meself and a hundred more to Americay sailed o'er
Our fortune to be made, oh we were thinking
When we got to Yankee-land, they shoved a gun into our hands
Saying "Paddy, you must go and fight for Lincoln"

Chorus

General Meaghar to us he said "If you get shot or lose your head
Each murdering son of yours will get a pension"
Well, myself I lost me leg, they gave me a wooden peg
And by God this is the truth to you I mention

Chorus

When I think myself in luck, I get fed on Indian buck
And Ireland is the country I delight in
With the devil I did say, it's curse Americay
For I think I've had enough of your hard fighting

Chorus

[FrankRep]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Up to 8,000 non-citizens enlist in the U.S. Armed Forces every year and serve alongside American troops.

Edit:

If you're willing to give your life for this country, you should be rewarded with legal citizenship. I can agree with this.