This thread needs more pit-worthy stuff so here’s one- He was waiting for his son to return from the USS Lincoln. Then Border Patrol arrested him
Yeah, that guy was encouraging people to vote for Trump. So someone be sure to mention to him: “It worked!”
The father? Where did you see that?
This is the part that really pisses me off:
Katherine Delgado, 28, Joshua Aviles’ sister, said that Joshua joined the military in part because he thought it would improve his father’s chances of getting citizenship and so that he would “no longer be living in fear of being arrested.”
I believe I have mentioned before that I became an immigration attorney after I left the Navy. If I haven’t, well, I’ve said it now. I focus specifically on noncitizens veterans and their families (I got typecast to work with veterans for being a veteran). Just by osmosis, I have also learned a thing or two about the immigrant family members of US military service members and veterans. I have even filed a couple military parole-in-place applications (which the article briefly mentions).
This pisses me off because even as practitioners in this field know and will tell you that MPIP has grown increasingly rare (they will let you file an application, but good luck getting even a decision on it, much less an approval these days), the military still advertises it as a perk of joining. It’s not a mistake that this young sailor got it into his head that if he joined the Navy he would be protecting his father, maybe even giving him a path to legal residency and ultimately citizenship: I can almost guarantee a recruiter told him that. Worse, it’s not even just some bull shit lie recruiters are putting out: just a few months ago the large Army base near me put out an article about MPIP, and it was specifically issued by their legal assistance office, with one of their attorneys in the by-line.
This, even more than the conditions on Lincoln, is a national disgrace.
Don’t even get me started on the matter of deported veterans.
Thanks for causing me to dig deeper. I rescind my comment- that was another guy.
Save some women for the rest of us!
Did you know that (male) immigrants have to register with the Selective Service?
My oldest friend’s daughter’s now husband came to the US from Ghana on a student visa around eight years ago and that was one of the things he had to do.
That same friend’s former brother in law legally came to the US from Mexico in the 1960s. He was drafted into the Army and served in Vietnam. He’s still here and as I recall, never bothered with citizenship.
While I am at it, here is some trivia. That friend and another friend of ours have birth dates within two weeks of one another. We all registered for the Selective Service together at a post office in December of 1981. We were all together a couple of years ago and looked up our serial numbers on line. Our numbers were sequential.
Well, I certainly do. Proof of registration is actually a required part of an application for naturalization.
and how much did that come after Rep Ron Dellums said “we don’t need the military”? And Mayor Feinstein saying she (SF) didn’t want the Misssouri there. Remember, at the time only Alameda could handle 4 carriers at one time in the Pacific, and Bremerton didn’t have the depth in their bay for one. So basically everything but Concord WS was closed for political reasons.
Please! This is the same shameless cad who wants a Medal of Honor for stepping foot on a secured airbase
Probably a little.
I mean…no, I don’t think so. I’ll reiterate my earlier discussion on the topic. It just made logical and logistical financial sense to cashier the Bay Area bases, particularly the Alameda NAS. Did some of the local anti-military political rhetoric make it easier to sell internally and maybe generate a little pleased schadenfreude among military planners and Republican politicians? Sure, I have no doubt. But I don’t think it was the major selling point.
The major selling point was that you don’t need a centrally-located four-carrier port on the West coast when you can stash three of six in Bremerton in the north and three of six in San Diego to the south. Redundancy would make more sense if major bases on U.S. soil were under threat. But they just aren’t in the current world climate. Given that it just became a very expensive luxury and it made sense to keep the bases on the wings rather than in the middle.