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08 Jan 2024
Senator Dick Durbin proposed legislation allowing undocumented immigrants to gain U.S. citizenship by serving honorably in the military.

And I was listening to Dick Durbin, who's a senator from my old home state, Illinois, and listen to what he says. Here's one of the reasons why they want to get as many immigrants as they can in here. Watch this. 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're an undocumented person in this country and you can pass the physical and the required test, background test, the like, 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, in the Navy, in 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.