Keep Non-Citizens Out Of Military
Dear Editor,
Two Navy sailors of Chinese descent have been arrested for allegedly spying for the Chinese dictatorship. In Illinois, the state government recently passed a law that will allow non-citizens to become police officers. I don’t think that non-citizens should be allowed to join the military, or police departments, or work for any government in the United States. Citizens of dictatorships should not be allowed to work for any government agency in our country.
Chuck Mann
It’s not often I find myself agreeing with Chuck Mann. In this case though, he is totally spot-on.
Even citizens of friendly democracies should not be employed in our military or government. They’re not American citizens, so the dangers are obvious. Even some US citizens have a question mark over them; many Chinese naturalized US citizens have betrayed this country to their homeland, and Jewish-Americans have a habit of providing Israel with our secrets.
Foreigners have no business working in the US government (and I’m a foreigner).
Question is why are illegals in the country? I can understand legal visitors. Maybe the government is doing the same thing as big business, hiring people for less pay than they would be required to pay citizens.
As a retired Army veteran I find myself with mixed feelings. I have served with service members in this category and in some cases found them to be outstanding. That being said, times have changed and our enemies see an opportunity to use this,
Immigrants have always been allowed to serve in our military. It is one of the paths to citizenship. I don’t think this opportunity should be taken away because some of the immigrants have been found to be spies.
What should be more concerning is that our military, and our government, have a real problem with their security. Recently a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman was leaking secrets apparently to impress his internet gaming friends. Questions include why someone so young, and a Guardsman, had such high-level security clearance, why he was able to remove the information from the place he worked, why no one reported the leaks being shared for months, and why someone working for the military didn’t understand the severity of the situation.
There have been numerous security leaks in the last several years related to government information including servicemen’s personal information (putting Special Ops and covert people especially in danger), the personal information of other government employees, medical records of servicemen and government employees, and medical records of Medicare and Medicaid recipients.
As serious as spying is for national security, it’s even more so for business. technology, and medical research. Foreign students and researchers are constantly working to take the information that our colleges, universities, and private companies put their time and effort into, and considering that most of this research now involves government and military money and contracts now, it’s an attack on our nation’s security on all levels.
We should expect far better security from our government, researchers, universities and colleges, businesses and financial companies, medical providers than we have. If security was increased for all of our agencies and businesses then we wouldn’t have to worry about individuals or specific groups, we’d know the information was secure because of protocols in place to prevent it being stolen or transmitted.