US Army recruits Tijuana residents for the military

[othermeans]

I don't know if this is general knowledge but on a trip to Tijuana Wednesday I found this article in the EL MEXICANO.

Denucian el reclutamiento de tijuanenses por el Ejercito de EU.

The gist of the article was that activists in Mexico are trying to block army recruiters from coming into Mexico in an attempt to entice them to join the American army.

I know the policy here at DU is to only give a snippet. So I'll give the first couple of paragraphs. Unfortunately it is in Spanish but Google translator will give you a fair translation.

Tijuana-Jovenes tijuanenses estan siendo clandestinamente reclutados en bares locales para enlistarse al Ejercito norteamericano, denuncio Fernando Suarez del Solar fundador y titular de Proyecto Guerrero Azteca por la Paz.

Segun el Pentagono, la guerra de Estados Unido contra Irak ha dejado 4 mil muertos: 11 por ciento de estos, latinos y por lo menos la mitad de ellos mexicanos.

I'll try to find a link to the article so that everyone could read it in depth.

[BlooInBloo]

1. Just call it a press gang and be done with it.

[NC_Nurse]

2. Nice. Don't come into our country - but we'd love to use you as cannon

fodder in our war. :puke:

[Newsjock]

3. Link here

http://www.el-mexicano.com.mx/nota.aspx?idNota=298696&esSecc=true

TIJUANA. Young tijuanenses being secretly recruited in local bars to join the U.S. Army, claimed Fernando Suarez del Solar, founder and owner of Project Guerrero Azteca for Peace.

He assured that recruiters operating in dens in civilian clothes approached the youth of this city, and invite them beer and the call to join the ranks of Americans in exchange for citizenship, he said.

[othermeans]

4. Thanks newsjock I just found it myself. Damn your quick

[Bobbieo]

5. You can't work here but you sure as hell can die for our country!!!!

Bush keeps going on and on and no one is stopping him or his GD war. He has ten months left to further destroy this nation! Maybe the friggin world!!!

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. And once they get out of the army, they are deported?

[Bobbieo]

7. If they live that long in Iraq!!!

[Meeker Morgan]

8. Foreigners serving in the US Army ...

... and thereby becoming citizens.

Not a new wrinkle by any means. It's been done all along.

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. There is a movement to change that

Since immigrants are evil now.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Here is the trick

American recruiters invite beers to kids, who are invited to join the US Army in exchange for citizenship after their tour. By the by, that is a nice lie, that promise they cannot fulfill, but the bills that they have tried to bring before the Congress to essentially do this make sense all of a sudden... and empires do show their age when they start recruiting barbarian troops, to use the Roman tern.

The activist is asking the foreign office and local authorities to essentially stop this practice

Oh and it would be impossible to check on this, but apparently half of the Mexican Americans KIA did not have clear migratory status, aka they were illegal.

So, if this is the case and I have no reason to doubt it.. isn't DOD housing Illegals now?

[Bobbieo]

11. Wonder if Maricopa County, AZ Sheriff Arpaio knows about this!!!

Guess he is too busy chasing the illegals back to Mexico