Disposable
May 23rd, 2005 at 7:37 am by Susie
Just use and throw away:
Three years ago, President Bush offered accelerated citizenship to any green card holder who has served in the military since Sept. 11, 2001.Instead, the bereaved father tells would-be recruits, they could wind up like Marine Lance Cpl. Jesus Suarez, killed at age 20 after he stepped on an unexploded cluster bomb in March 2003, during the first week of the war.
“Immigrants are generally the first on the front lines,” Suarez said. “They should know where they’ll end up.”
While there is no way to confirm the truth of that assertion, Latinos comprise more than a third of the 41,000 foreign citizens in the U.S. fighting force, according to the Defense Department, with the largest number — 8,539 — from California. Immigrant troops are most visible in the Army and Marines, the services with the highest casualty rates in Iraq, but barely present in the Navy and Air Force, Pentagon records show.
Via Delusional Duck.
