Illegal-Immigrant Soldiers Won’t Fix Our Military-Recruiting Crisis

Two of the many problems facing America today are an out-of-control immigration crisis and a failure of military-service branches to meet their recruiting targets. In recent remarks on the Senate floor, Senator Dick Durbin (D., Ill) outlined a ridiculous proposal to kill these two birds with one stone:

Durbin, that is, wants to provide illegal immigrants with a pathway to citizenship and to turn the military into a social-welfare program. Democrats have dreamed about the latter for decades. In a press release for his proposal, Durbin highlighted comments from General Daniel Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau, summarized thus: “General Hokanson noted that educational and health benefits are what interest recruits most.”