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on August 2, 2017 in World News

Report: ‘Potential Security Risks’ in Program That Recruited 10,000 Foreign-Born Members of U.S. Armed Forces Since 2009

by Michael Patrick Leahy Fox News reported on Tuesday that a Department of Defense (DOD) program that has recruited 10,000 foreign-born members of the U.S. Armed Forces since 2009 may have “potential security risks.” According to Fox News: After more than a year of investigation, the Pentagon’s inspector general recently issued a report – its contents still classified but its existence disclosed here for the first time – identifying serious problems with Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI), a DOD program that provides immigrants and non-immigrant aliens with an expedited path to citizenship in exchange for military service....

by Michael Patrick Leahy Fox News reported on Tuesday that a Department of Defense (DOD) program that has recruited 10,000 foreign-born members of the U.S. Armed Forces since 2009 may have “potential security risks.” According to Fox News: After...

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