Giving them in-state tuition, education, medical and all the rest of the benefits they do not deserve while we're told by various governments and groups within our own borders that they will do NOTHING to enforce the laws they're sworn to uphold because they don't happen to like them.
HOWEVER, I welcome the LEGAL immigration of those who view the United States as what it is. And taking it a step further, I would guarantee American citizenship for anyone either completing an enlistment or a combat tour; anyone awarded a Purple Heart or anyone given a medical discharge for a service-connected disability.
As it turns out, it appears that SOME recruiters (certainly not all) are promising close to instant citizenship to enlistees (They have to be enlistees, since non-citizens cannot be commissioned) for signing on the dotted line.
In writing this, this isn't a "Bush" thing or an "Obama" thing. How we could POSSIBLY deport ANYONE who's put their ass on the line for this country is simply beyond my understanding. Yet, apparently, that is what we're doing:
Former National Guard soldier fights deportationMuhammad Zahid Chaudhry's father told him to serve the country he loves.
Yakima Herald-Republic
YAKIMA, Wash. —Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry's father told him to serve the country he loves.
Heeding those words, the 36-year-old Pakistani immigrant living in Yakima joined the Army National Guard and was sent to active duty at Fort Lewis and Fort Irwin in Southern California.
Now, the country he served is kicking him out.
Immigration authorities are denying him U.S. citizenship because he failed to disclose old misdemeanor convictions in Australia when he applied for a visa a decade ago.
Chaudhry - who claims he was coerced into pleading guilty to the crimes, for which he paid fines - says he didn't realize they were classified as convictions at the time. He alerted U.S. immigration authorities after learning otherwise years later.
He says his honesty is costing him his dream of living in this country with his wife Ann, a U.S. citizen.
But immigration authorities say he misrepresented himself just to further his stay in the United States. In April, he faces an immigration judge in a deportation hearing.
"There's not a word to describe the overwhelming depression," Ann Chaudhry said as her eyes moistened. "It gets you down. You just want to go crawl in a hole sometimes. It's constant and people who haven't gone through this type of problem can't comprehend what it's like."
On a recent morning, Chaudhry sits quietly in his wheelchair in his west Yakima home. His wife hands him a napkin filled with pills he takes to tolerate the pain that shoots from his broken back.
He rarely leaves his home.
He arrived in the U.S. on a tourist visa in 1998 and planned a life in the U.S. military when he joined in March 2001. A month later his application for permanent residency was approved. But a series of back injuries he sustained during training exercises that required him to repeatedly sprint and drop to the ground while toting a rifle and pack at Fort Lewis eventually confined his life to a wheelchair. He was honorably discharged in May 2006.
Despite his infirmities, Chaudhry is not leaving the country without a fight.
Sen. Patty Murray portrays herself as some sort of Veteran's Goddess. I will be discussing this with her local office tomorrow, which can be reached at 360.696.7797 or go on down there like I am to the Marshall House in beautiful downtown Ft. Vancouver.
Do NOT let this go. If Murray is all she claims, she should be able to fix this with a letter, a note, a phone call.
These men and women have bled for us and in some case, died for us. The least we can do is recognize their sacrifice and let them die as Americans... for any one of them deserves it much more than anyone else here in violation of our laws.
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