- In the United States, the army is increasing recruitment initiatives.
- These efforts have reached levels not seen in more than a decade.
- The army is thus recruiting new profiles, including migrants who seek to obtain American citizenship.
The army as a gateway to American citizenship. This is the choice made across the Atlantic at a time when the American army is seeking to recruit more than it has done over the past decade, and that includes migrants. This initiative is implemented through an accelerated naturalization program.
It is on the legendary site of Parris Island, which serves as a training camp for the American Marines, that 900 migrants, for example, obtained citizenship last year after three months of training there. The training they followed there “are among the most intensive and difficult in the world
“, underlines our journalist William de Lesseux on LCI, in a sequence to be found in the video at the top of this article.
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Among the naturalized people is Ivan Revilla, a 21-year-old young man who signed up in exchange for American citizenship for himself and his family from Mexico. This naturalization thus offers him a lasting status and protection for his wife and parents. He was particularly afraid of deportation by agents of ICE, the immigration police.
“I was scared knowing that my family could be taken at any time, leaving my sister and I alone. So I thought, ‘Why not join the army?’ This is the quickest way for them to have their citizenship. That’s what encouraged me to come here
“, he confided.
