{"id":1666936,"date":"2022-09-30T15:50:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T19:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1666936"},"modified":"2022-09-30T15:50:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T19:50:54","slug":"dem-rep-wants-illegal-immigrants-to-join-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-rep-wants-illegal-immigrants-to-join-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Rep Wants Illegal Immigrants To Join Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdem-rep-wants-illegal-immigrants-to-join-military%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1666936&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. Ruben Gallego (D., Ariz.) on Thursday introduced legislation that would permit illegal immigrants under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to join the U.S. military.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;DACA recipients go to college, run successful businesses, and raise their families here in the U.S. But right now, they can&#8217;t serve in the military,&#8221; Gallego <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepRubenGallego\/status\/1575553133094129664?s=20&amp;t=2sj2n7BVY1i4tTvrWzsi3g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> after unveiling the bill. &#8220;My bill \u2026 fixes that so DACA recipients across the country can pursue their American Dream.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Under Gallego&#8217;s bill, the roughly 600,000 illegal immigrants in the DACA program would be allowed to enlist in the military and eventually apply for citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat introduced the legislation at a time when the military faces a growing recruiting crisis, compounded by factors including the vaccine mandate, under which the Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/tens-of-thousands-of-soldiers-barred-from-service-due-to-biden-vaccine-mandate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">barred<\/a> more than 60,000 soldiers from service. Branches of the military, including the Air Force, have faced <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/air-force-admits-it-changed-norms-on-advancement-through-elite-training-pipeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accusations<\/a> of lowering standards to boost the number of women in their units.<\/p>\n<p>Gallego said his bill would relieve the military&#8217;s recruitment shortfalls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While it is partly an immigration issue, it&#8217;s also a national security issue, especially right now,&#8221; the lawmaker said.<\/p>\n<p>It was possible for illegal immigrants to join the military under a 2008 program, but the program expired in 2017, and illegal immigrants have been totally barred from joining the service since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ruben Gallego (D., Ariz.) on Thursday introduced legislation that would permit illegal immigrants under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to join the U.S. military.<br \/>\nThe post Dem Rep Wants Illegal Immigrants To Join Military appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1666936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}