Sen. Dick Durbin suggests we solve the military recruitment problem by using illegal immigrants

Military recruitment is terrible in this country. The Army will fall 15,000 short on its recruitment goal in 2023; the Navy, 10,000; and the Air Force, 3,000. Not a good look for our military.

Enter Democratic Senator Dick Durbin, who has a grand plan for how to solve this problem: Use illegal immigrants. Not joking, Durbin actually wants to make military service a road to citizenship for illegal immigrants.

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What troubles me about the debate now with the southern border is it is one half of the immigration equation. Yes, we need order at the border. Yes, we need to have changes in the laws that reflect the reality of the overwhelming numbers from all over the world who are coming to our shores and our border. But, there's also an incredible demand for legal immigration into this country even now.
The presiding officer, my colleague from the state of Illinois, has legislation which addresses one aspect of that. Her bill … says that if you're an undocumented person in this country and you can pass the physical and the required test, background test, the like, you can serve in our military and if you do it honorably we will make you citizens of the United States.
Do we need that? Do you know what the recruiting numbers are at the Army, Navy, and the Air Force? They can't reach their quotas each month. They can't find enough people to join our military forces. And there are those who are undocumented who want the chance to serve and risk their lives for this country. Should we give them a chance? I think we should.

Illegal immigrants, people who broke the law to get here, should serve in our military?