The ACLU is seeking to force the Pentagon to abandon a Trump admin. policy and reinstate an expedited path to citizenship for foreign-born members of the military, according to court papers.
and reinstate an expedited path to citizenship for foreign-born members of the military, according to court papers filed late Tuesday.
In 2017, the Trump administration created a policy that blocked an expedited path to citizenship for new service members, and instead required them to serve for six months to a year before they were eligible for the military certification required to apply to become naturalized citizens. Trump’s Pentagon appealed the decision, but the court has not yet ruled on that appeal and now, one year later, the ACLU claims the military is still enforcing the policy and blocking expedited citizenship for new recruits.
In June, the Pentagon under President Joe Biden released a memo stating its intention to rescind the Trump administration policy, pending a review. Santiago referred questions about how many people have used the expedited path to citizenship to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The agency’s website reports that since 2002 the U.S. has naturalized more than 139,000 members of the U.S. military, including more than 4,500 in fiscal year 2020.
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