Military Amnesty Still a Bad Idea

For the past several years Representative Jeff Denham (R., Calif.) has been promoting the Enlist Act, which would grant legalization and eventual citizenship to young illegal immigrants who join the military. In June 2014, I wrote an article for NRO arguing, at the time, that it was a bad idea. It is still a bad idea but apparently it is again being seriously considered by the congressional Republican leadership. The key sections of my argument against ENLIST are below. On both procedural and substantive grounds, patriotic forces have opposed misusing the American military as an instrument of amnesty. For example, the American
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