ClydeR
05-17-2015, 09:59 PM
House Republicans voted to block a measure that would have allowed the Pentagon to consider allowing young immigrants who are in the country illegally -- but were given temporary legal status under a program started by President Obama -- to enlist in the military.
The measure had already won bipartisan support in the House Armed Services Committee when several Republicans joined Democrats to add it to a big defense spending package.
Passage would have meant a sizable shift in Republican thinking on immigration-related matters.
But the provision ran into trouble when the House Republican majority decried it as a back-door "amnesty" for immigrants here illegally. Most Republicans oppose Obama's immigration actions.
More... (http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-pn-immigrants-military-20150514-story.html)
Not long before the House voted to amend the defense authorization bill to prohibit DREAMers from serving in the military, Clinton announced that she believes they should be allowed to serve. Missing from the discussion is whether or not it would be good for the military. I think it would be bad for the military.
The campaign came out Thursday with a statement in support of permitting young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as young children through no fault of their own — often called “DREAMers” — to enlist in the military.
“If these courageous young men and women want to serve, they should be honored and celebrated, not discriminated against,” national political director Amanda Renteria said in the statement.
More... (http://fusion.net/story/135303/hillary-clinton-dreamers-should-be-able-to-serve-in-the-military/)
The amendment had garnered bipartisan support from a House committee, which originally added the language to the act. But on Thursday, the Republican-controlled House voted in favor of stripping Gallego’s amendment from the final bill, via a separate amendment offered by Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Alabama).
The measure had already won bipartisan support in the House Armed Services Committee when several Republicans joined Democrats to add it to a big defense spending package.
Passage would have meant a sizable shift in Republican thinking on immigration-related matters.
But the provision ran into trouble when the House Republican majority decried it as a back-door "amnesty" for immigrants here illegally. Most Republicans oppose Obama's immigration actions.
More... (http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-pn-immigrants-military-20150514-story.html)
Not long before the House voted to amend the defense authorization bill to prohibit DREAMers from serving in the military, Clinton announced that she believes they should be allowed to serve. Missing from the discussion is whether or not it would be good for the military. I think it would be bad for the military.
The campaign came out Thursday with a statement in support of permitting young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as young children through no fault of their own — often called “DREAMers” — to enlist in the military.
“If these courageous young men and women want to serve, they should be honored and celebrated, not discriminated against,” national political director Amanda Renteria said in the statement.
More... (http://fusion.net/story/135303/hillary-clinton-dreamers-should-be-able-to-serve-in-the-military/)
The amendment had garnered bipartisan support from a House committee, which originally added the language to the act. But on Thursday, the Republican-controlled House voted in favor of stripping Gallego’s amendment from the final bill, via a separate amendment offered by Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Alabama).