The Quote Below—More Misinformation from the Media
“Today’s U.S. military is facing a personnel deficit that is affecting our nation’s readiness and threatening our national security. But if our leaders are willing to act, there’s an obvious solution to this problem: immigrants.
“Last year, the military failed to meet its recruiting goals, even though at least one branch, the army, was offering a record $50,000 signing bonus to anyone willing to commit to a tour of six years. Part of the problem is that, like other employers, the armed forces are competing for candidates in the midst of a labor shortage. They also, however, face a fundamental demographic challenge: The total U.S. population is growing at its slowest rate in history.
“On top of that, there’s the quality-candidate issue. Increasingly Americans who do apply are rejected. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, even if they want to join, 71 percent of young people cannot meet military requirements. One in four is overweight. Others either fail to meet the education requirements necessary to serve in a high-tech 21st-century military or have mental health challenges or a drug abuse or criminal record.
“But a key reason the military can’t meet its recruiting goals is our nation’s problem with immigration.
“The U.S. population is now 13.5 percent foreign-born, but foreign-born individuals make up less than 4 percent of the military. Thousands of qualified, U.S. educated recruits cannot sign up. That’s because the Defense Department requires a green card—lawful permanent residence—for enlistment. But getting a green card these days is a herculean task that is beyond the reach of otherwise lawful and qualified immigrants. – What the U.S. Military Needs Is an Infusion of Immigrants, Margaret Stock, The Washington Post, 5/25/22 [Link]
Fact Check of Above Quote: This author ignores a very important reason for the shortage of military manpower. This is the globalist overreach of America’s ruling elites. They typically view our country not as a homeland deserving loyalty, but as a mere platform which they can use to extend political, economic, and military power around the globe. The late Harvard professor Samuel Huntington called them “transnationals.” They are people, he said, who “have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that are thankfully vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function now is to facilitate the elite’s global operations.”
It often seems that they view the U.S. military as the prototype of a global army or a world police force. Currently the U.S. has troops in more than 160 countries. We are involved in a maze of entangling alliances around the world, and we regularly involved ourselves in military interventions and meddling which have little if any connection to the actual interests of most Americans. If we could shrink this overreach–and then base policy on our genuine nation interests—we would have a smaller military which could meet its needs for servicemen.
One place where the military should go, where it isn’t now, is our border. There the Mexican drug cartels have control of significant territory on our side of the frontier. The cartels are mini governments with substantial armed forces. Their presence on our territory constitutes an invasion, and a military action against them is appropriate. Unfortunately, our globalists aren’t concerned about the flow of drugs and illegal migrants that the cartels enable. Globalists don’t care about our border.
The idea of taking noncitizen immigrants into the military is a bad idea under any circumstances. Citizenship is a commitment to loyalty. Troops without that allegiance are no asset to our country. Neither are “transnational” rulers.