What Next - Would You Join the Army for US Citizenship?
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🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
To shore up sagging enrollment, the U.S. military is doing what American industry does—looking to immigrants to fill out their numbers. Once a faster way to citizenship, serving in the armed forces has become another place where being an immigrant can carry harsh penalties—and can instead be a step on the way to deportation.
Guest: Sofya Aptekar, associate professor of urban studies, school of labor and urban studies, CUNY. Author of Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat
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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Madeline Ducharme, Anna Phillips, Paige Osburn, and Rob Gunther with help from Laura Spencer.
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| 0:00.0 | Thinking about spilling the tea? |
| 0:02.2 | WhatsApp has multiple layers of protection. |
| 0:04.5 | With enter-end encryption, no one but those in the chat can see it. |
| 0:07.8 | Which means you can spill the whole pot. |
| 0:09.7 | And with chat lock, you can password protect your most personal chats. |
| 0:13.3 | So you can spill the beans too. |
| 0:15.0 | And when all the features work together, you can spill everything on the table |
| 0:19.1 | without worrying about cleanup. |
| 0:21.0 | Because you can make it disappear at the press of a button. |
| 0:24.0 | So don't just spill the tea. |
| 0:25.6 | Spill it all. |
| 0:26.8 | WhatsApp. |
| 0:27.6 | Message privately with multiple layers of protection. |
| 0:36.4 | For the last couple of years, the armed forces in the United States has had a problem. |
| 0:41.7 | They can't seem to find enough soldiers. |
| 0:44.2 | Good afternoon and welcome to the first personnel subcommittee hearing of the 118th Congress. |
| 0:52.7 | This is not a secret. |
| 0:54.8 | The Army's missed its recruitment goal by 25%. |
| 0:59.0 | Military leaders went to Congress a few months back to ask for more money to get troops in the door. |
| 1:05.1 | They talked about doing more intense outreach, telling their story better. |
| 1:10.0 | The benefits of military service, where it could provide. |
| 1:13.2 | And then, Senator Tammy Duckworth brought up something else. |
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