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To: Joe S Pack who wrote (31065)	4/8/2003 5:44:16 PM
From: Joe S Pack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

LA Cardinal Urges Citizenship for Immigrant Troops asia.reuters.com Tue April 8, 2003 01:56 PM ET LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The head of the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese has urged President Bush to grant citizenship to immigrant soldiers fighting in Iraq, saying that it is not right to wait until someone dies in battle to give them a citizen's rights. Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony made the proposal in a letter sent on Tuesday to the White House, one day after he officiated at a funeral mass for of Cpl. Jose Gutierrez, a Guatemalan immigrant and one of the first combat casualties of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Gutierrez, 28, who died just hours after U.S. ground troops moved into southern Iraq on March 21, was granted posthumous citizenship along with two other soldiers who died in battle. In a letter faxed to the White House, the cardinal asked Bush to grant U.S. citizenship to non-native members of the U.S. Armed Services upon their honorable discharge -- rather than wait several years after they applied. "There is something terribly wrong with our immigration policies if it takes death on the battlefield to earn citizenship," Mahony wrote. "It seems to me and to many others that the very least we can do to assist our immigrant men and women serving the best interest of this great nation is to grant them citizenship without bureaucratic obstacles and delays. White House officials could not immediately be reached for comment. Immigrants must live in the United States for at least five years before they are eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship, a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services said. The ensuing qualification process can take years to complete. In a 2002 executive order, Bush agreed to expedite the naturalization process for non-citizen soldiers who serve "during ... the war against terrorists of global reach." About 37,000 non-citizens, who hold permanent residency papers popularly known as "green cards," now serve in the U.S. military.

To: Joe S Pack who wrote (31065)	4/8/2003 8:07:45 PM
From: energyplay	Respond to of 74559

Re: Compositon of US military - Moskos tilts it a little more than reality, which is always more complex. Surveys looking at the combat side vs. the logistics side find that ground combat has slightly more whites than the rest of the Army, and logistics more blacks. More Southerners and Westerners (ex -California) tend to be in the military, and from those areas there a more than a few upper middle class people. Certainly in the South patriaicns do serve. Al Gore would be a well known example of that.