(47,500 troops are Non-citizens and they want more, that doesn't count
the thousands of German, Russian, Czech, and other foreign troops inside
America right now under the guise of training. We have seen their
training, they are training to disarm the American people. Talk
about a Trojan Horse...Meanwhile Mexicans troops are crossing the border
and firing at INS border patrol on a regular basis....foreign NATO jets
have flown over American soil since 911...Meanwhile Bush just announced
that Norwegian jet-fighters would patrol American Skies.... Bush has
given Russia permission to fly AWAC type aircraft over American
soil....NATO police were photographed at Columbine Massacre....Planes are
flying into our buildings...Our soldiers are overseas under foreign
commanders.....The United Nations has commandeered a sizable chuck of our
military for peacekeeping missions....Iraqis are crawling all over the
midwest....China is in control of 6 major American seaports and the
Panama Canal....The Pentagon stated that because of our troops being
overseas America may need to bring in foreign troops to protect
America.....The borders are still WIDE OPEN.....And now they announce
federally funded NATIONWIDE CHECKPOINTS for damn seatbelts violations
this Memorial Day Weekend....)
MAYDAY MAYDAY INVASION WAKE THE HELL UP!!!
Army Wants Noncitizens for Military
By SUZANNE GAMBOA Associated Press Writer
May 20, 2002, 3:30 PM EDT
WASHINGTON -- Even if you're not a U.S. citizen, Uncle Sam wants
you.
About 47,500 military personnel are noncitizens, roughly 4 percent of the
total, and the Pentagon is recruiting more.
"We recruit everywhere. We like to look like America and recruit
anyone who is qualified," said Jim Cassella, a Pentagon
spokesman.
Cassella said the noncitizens must have green cards certifying they are
legally in the country. They may serve only a single term of enlistment
-- two to four years -- before applying for citizenship and cannot hold a
military job that requires a security clearance. The same legal residents
are barred from working as civilian airport screeners in the Sept. 11
aftermath.
Some noncitizen soldiers say they thought defending the United States
automatically made them an American.
Alberto Castillo learned the hard way that isn't the case. He left
Chihuahua, Mexico, as a young child and has lived in America for nearly
50 years, four of which were spent in the Army and 21 in the National
Guard.
Nobody ever told him he wasn't a citizen until he applied for a civil
service job after leaving active duty. He was referred to the Immigration
and Naturalization Service, which told him he needed to apply for
citizenship.
"If the military is picking up people left and right, they should
make you a citizen automatically," said Castillo, 55, of San
Antonio. He is applying for citizenship now.
Marine Lance Cpl. Karina Bejarano, 24, also mistakenly believed she was a
citizen.
"You have to swear in and swear to defend this country. I would
figure you do that and boom-boom, you become a citizen," said
Bejarano, who was born in Peru and moved to the United States when she
was 10. She plans to apply for citizenship next month.
Maj. Ben Owens, a Pentagon spokesman, said there is no policy requiring
recruiters to discuss citizenship.
The military does provide a faster route to citizenship. Legal permanent
residents may become U.S. citizens after serving in the military for
three years; the wait for civilians is five years. But their service does
not exempt them from civics and English proficiency tests or immigration
fees.
Rep. Martin Frost, D-Texas, has written legislation to reduce the
required military service to two years, waive fees and allow soldiers to
go through the citizenship processes at U.S. embassies. Frost said that
under current policy, noncitizen soldiers stationed abroad must pay their
way back to the United States for citizenship tests and their
naturalization oath.
"If people serve two years honorably in the military, certainly they
should be able to become citizens," said Frost, who is married to a
two-star Army general. "Anyone putting his or her life on the line
to defend the country has established that he or she is a great
American."
Frost will try this week to include the measure in an emergency spending
bill.
Selective Service System Director Alfred Rascon was a noncitizen when he
served in Vietnam. He believes changes are needed to make it easier for
noncitizen soldiers to become citizens.
Born in Mexico, Rascon was awarded the Medal of Honor -- the highest
military honor -- in 1995 for saving the lives of two men by covering
them with his own body and taking fire during a 1966 skirmish.
"What was belittling to me was that here I am, probably six months
after I left the service, having to come back and take a test on my
loyalty, having to be asked questions, and I'd already been wounded
twice," said Rascon, who became a citizen in 1967.
Frost's bill would not remove the testing requirement.
Roughly one-fifth of the 3,458 Medals of Honor awarded have gone to
foreign-born soldiers, according to the Medal of Honor Society.
Copyright � 2002, The Associated Press
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-InfoWarz
America, Open up your eyes and see the lessons to be
learned........
In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips
will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not
hear me, saith the Lord. -1 Cor. 14:21
Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set
up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and
done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon. O thou
that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is
come, and the measure of thy covetousness. The LORD of hosts hath
sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with
caterpillars; and they shall lift up a shout against thee. -Jeremiah
51:12-14
Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with
gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; Therefore shalt thou
serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger,
and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall
put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. The LORD
shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as
swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not
understand; A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the
person of the old, nor shew favour to the young: And he shall eat the
fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed:
which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the
increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed
thee. -Dt. 28:47-51
