Quote:<a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/25/policy-to-allow-undocumented-immigrants-in-military/16225135/'>http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/25/policy-to-allow-undocumented-immigrants-in-military/16225135/</a>


Sorry about the link. I'm on my Kindle and it is not user friendly on this site for tagging links and such. Anyway, this article is from 2014 and describes the program under which illegal immigrants are allowed into our Armed Forces.


Oh cool. The link us better than I thought.

 

Interesting article and thanks for sharing that.  Regarding that article here are my thoughts.

 

My experience/exposure to the military is primarily Navy although I have worked with some Army and Air Force people.  That being said, much of the work that I have done and still do would have very few non-citizens if any in the program(s) and certainly no MAVNI personnel.  I knew and have been around several people serving over the years that were non-citizens but were not illegals.  It's interesting that the Army takes a significant number of the MAVNI personnel while the Air Force has taken a few and the Navy/Marine Corp has not taken any.

 

My guess is that people that qualify under the MAVNI program can not hold any kind of security clearance (rightly so) and are probably limited to certain jobs within the military.  The qualifications seem reasonable enough (entered the U.S. with their parents under the age of 16) though I would probably like to see that age slightly lower (say 14).

 

Once again, thanks for the link.  I actually learned something today.

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