The US Army is quietly discharging immigrant recruits who were promised a path to citizenship

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• Some immigrant US Army reservists and recruits who enlisted in the military with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged.
• Immigration attorneys say they know of more than 40 people who have been discharged or whose status has become questionable.
• Some of the service members say they were not told why they were being discharged.
• Spokespeople for the Pentagon and the Army said that, due to the pending litigation, they were unable to explain the discharges.

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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Some immigrant US Army reservists and recruits who enlisted in the military with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged, the Associated Press has learned.

The AP was unable to quantify how many men and women who enlisted through the special recruitment program have been booted from the Army, but immigration attorneys say they know of more than 40 who have been discharged or whose status has become questionable, jeopardizing their futures.

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