Since Sept. 11, 2001, the United States has granted US citizenship to 32,500 foreign soldiers. In July 2002, US President George W. Bush issued an executive order authorizing a fast track to citizenship to foreigners who enlist in US Armed Forces
"US Army Lures Foreigners with Promise of Citizenship"
By Cordula Meyer in Washington
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-512384,00.html
"One of them was Juan Alcantara, 22, the son of immigrants from the Dominican Republic who grew up in New York's Washington Heights neighborhood. Alcantara survived his first year in Iraq, but then the recent troop surge began .... Corporal Alcantara was told he would be kept on in Iraq for another six months.
He had been scheduled to return home on June 28. His girlfriend gave birth to their daughter on June 29. On Aug. 6, a bomb exploded while Alcantara was searching a house in the town of Baqubah, north of Baghdad. Alcantara was killed in the blast.
His mother, Maria, now sits in her apartment in Washington Heights, wiping the tears from her eyes. She once told her son that the three most important things in life are: 'God, family and your country.' She says that the army promised Juan 'up to $50,000 for college, plus a $20,000 bonus, his choice of any of 200 jobs and a full-time position.' "
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To open the door wide to 3rd world impoverished peoples to increase the cannon fodder makes for good recruitment, especially when they will be destined for front line infantry duty and will probably be killed anyway so none of the promised payoffs will have to be granted.
Not to mention having a large force available for potential future put downs at home of activists in the streets protesting the government ... those 'soldiers' would not hold any sympathetic feelings about acting AGAINST FELLOW AMERICANS like our present troops might.