If you are going to watch the video you will see where he says that 38% of the US armed forces are green card holders...
As someone who is familiar with both processes personally, this should not exist either as a prominent statistic.
I am both from a long line of natural citizen veterans and have also been familiarized through the naturalization process on a very personal level. The strongest nation on the Earth should not so heavily rely on military rank and fodder to the tune of 1/3 being in the pending process.
Chalk this up to a failed system and not the individuals but the time alloted and individual cases often lean towards a higher percentage being residual. Essentially, there is no excuse for this math.
Just my 2c.... despite this soldier's individual case which seems justified, the problem should not exist in the first place like so many others. So the crux of the issue is congruent with the video title: We need immigration reform
Patriotism has been dropping for decades and so has the prestige of serving in the military.
This is one of the main underlying issues undoubtedly.
Foreigners also use the military as a ways of paying for their tuition and avoiding student loans. IMO people need to serve at least 8 years in the military before they pay for their tuition, and not the regular 4.
I wholeheartedly concur with both sentiments. There should be zero foreign student aid IMO. If schools want to use their own coin to draw in potential alumni then fine, but zero tax dollars going to any avenue of paying noncitizens tuitions.
Additionally, if you correct the first problematic pejorative you mentioned then the time served gap issue would most likely correct itself in time.
As someone who is familiar with both processes personally, this should not exist either as a prominent statistic.
I am both from a long line of natural citizen veterans and have also been familiarized through the naturalization process on a very personal level. The strongest nation on the Earth should not so heavily rely on military rank and fodder to the tune of 1/3 being in the pending process.
Chalk this up to a failed system and not the individuals but the time alloted and individual cases often lean towards a higher percentage being residual. Essentially, there is no excuse for this math.
Just my 2c.... despite this soldier's individual case which seems justified, the problem should not exist in the first place like so many others. So the crux of the issue is congruent with the video title: We need immigration reform
This is one of the main underlying issues undoubtedly.
I wholeheartedly concur with both sentiments. There should be zero foreign student aid IMO. If schools want to use their own coin to draw in potential alumni then fine, but zero tax dollars going to any avenue of paying noncitizens tuitions.
Additionally, if you correct the first problematic pejorative you mentioned then the time served gap issue would most likely correct itself in time.