Huh?
You mean that those who come to this country to BETTER their lives sign up to put their lives ON THE LINE for their new country?
Is there a guy running for President in America who don’t want immigrants coming here?
Immigrants to the U.S. are more willing to “fight for the country” than the native-born, according to a multinational study that may have resonance amid military recruitment struggles and an election charged with rhetoric and misinformation.
Some 60 percent of U.S. respondents expressed a willingness to fight for their country, and immigrants were nearly 30 percent more likely to do so than native-born citizens, according to the study, whose results were described in the September issue of Armed Forces & Society.
The researchers compared multiple surveys across several years including 2024, looking at Americans’ and Canadians’ responses to questions about background, self-identity, religious beliefs, feelings of national pride, and more. The study was conducted by Christopher Simon of the University of Utah, Nicholas P. Lovrich of Washington State University, Kenneth G. Verboncoeur, of the U.S. Army, and Michael C. Moltz of Shippensburg University.
The authors write that demographics will lead many Western militaries to recruit more immigrants.
“Recruitment shortfalls plaguing prominent Western militaries employing the all-volunteer force model raise concerns about the maintenance of force size and readiness. Faced with aging populations, many developed nations will increasingly rely on immigrant youth to address recruitment shortfalls,” the authors write.
(So far, in the United States, most services report being on track or above their 2024 goals to date but fell beneath their 2023 goals.)
The survey also indicates that immigrants are more civic-minded and oriented toward public service than the native-born populations of the countries in which they reside. That belies many claims by GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has made derogation of immigrants a chief theme of his campaign….
image….U.S. sailors swear the Oath of Allegiance, becoming U.S. citizens during their naturalization ceremony at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, on Dec. 15, 2021. U.S. AIR FORCE / Jason Wilkinson
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