Sen. Durbin: Undocumented Immigrants Should Be Allowed to Serve in the Military and Given Citizenship Afterwards
‘Do you know what the recruiting numbers are? ... They can’t reach their quotas each month’
Dec 4, 2023 6:00 PM
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DURBIN: “The presiding officer, my colleague from the state of Illinois, has legislation which addresses one aspect of that. Her bill — and I hope I describe it accurately — says that if you are an undocumented person in this country and you can pass the physical and the required test, background test, and the like, that you can serve in our military, and if you do it honorably, we will make you citizens of the United States. Do we need that? Do you know what the recruiting numbers are at the Army and the Navy and the Air Force? They can’t reach their quotas each month. They can’t find enough people to join our military forces. And there are those who are undocumented who want the chance to serve and risk their lives for this country. Should we give them a chance? I think we should.”