Judge orders the Pentagon to stop discriminating against naturalized soldiers
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https://www.npr.org/2019/02/02/690846720/judge-orders-pentagon-to-stop-discriminating-against-naturalized-citizen-soldier
A federal judge in Seattle has ordered the Defense Department to stop discriminating against naturalized citizens who volunteered to serve in the U.S. Army under a program to attract
certain immigrants with specialized skills.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Zilly ruled Thursday that the Pentagon may not require soldiers who are naturalized citizens to undergo "continuous monitoring," or security checks every
two years, when such scrutiny is not applied to U.S.-born soldiers.
The plaintiffs are 17 naturalized citizens who enlisted through the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI) program. Begun in 2009, the program recruits immigrants
with critical foreign language or medical skills in exchange for a fast track to citizenship. More than 10,000 soldiers have served in the U.S. military through the MAVNI program. The
program was frozen in 2016 due to security concerns.
Judge Zilly noted in his ruling that the "defendant's witnesses acknowledged that no MAVNI soldier who has become a naturalized citizen has ever been charged or convicted of
espionage or any other criminal offense or been denaturalized."
wait for the scotus to block this just because. After allowing trump to discriminate based on a policy he cooked up one afternoon the scotus has shown they're purely political.
Wonder for how long exactly they've been doing this
The justification is racism
It's not. The military takes security very seriously. You can't just apply the racism card to everything. Applying for a security clearance is a nightmare. Are these security checks excessive? Yes, though they are born of a perceived need. We are under assault on all sides by all sorts of security threats, and insider threat is the largest one we have to contend with and the most dangerous one. The military is heavy handed. It is good that they are looking to revise this policy, but it has nothing to so with racism in the slightest.
If it wasn't race-related, there wouldn't be applying this policy only to citizens with immigrant backgrounds and would instead be applying it to everybody. If there was any actual security concern then they would've brought it up in the court hearings. Instead, it's acknowledged that there has never been any case of espionage or any other criminal offence by any of the people being discriminated against.
This is a very cut-and-dry example of discrimination based on race.
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