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Filling the Ranks: Immigrants in the U.S. Military

Mary Spicuzza, SanFrancisco Weekly

Jun 22, 2007

There are about 750,000 undocumented immigrants of military age
living in the U.S. who aren't being actively recruited by the armed
forces. That may change if the stalled immigration bill -- or at
least a provision of it named the DREAM Act -- passes. But between
the controversy over the war in Iraq and the battle over immigration,
any talk of troop surges, immigrants, and the military can quickly get messy.

So, here's some more materials about non-citizens serving in the
military to help interested readers sort things out:

"Essential to the Fight: Immigrants in the Military, Five Years After
9/11" by Margaret Stock.
http://www.ailf. org/ipc/infocus/ infocus_11206. shtml
Stock is an immigration attorney who also teaches at West Point.

"Who Will Serve?" and "Power Point Racism" by Jorge Mariscal
Mariscal is a professor at University of California-San Diego who
also works with Project YANO, a counter-recruitment organization.
Here's a link to his blog, and several related articles that he's written
http://jorgemarisca l.blogspot. com/
http://www.counterp unch.org/ mariscal01052007 .html
http://www.counterp unch.org/ mariscal10132006 .html

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