At present, Latinos are 11% of military personnel, compared with 16% of the relevant age group in the overall population. Naturally, Latinos find it hard to understand a country which has denied undocumented students the opportunity to become fully-educated citizens while simultaneously it solicits immigrants to fight and die for the American flag. The fact that a green card holder in the military can have his naturalization process accelerated does not offset the inherent policy contradiction, which is only one of many on the list of the country’s treatment of undocumented individuals.

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