The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is supposed to review every case that comes to them for a foreign-born veteran. If a foreign-born service member received an honorable discharge, he or she is eligible for citizenship, provided he applies for it; his case is supposed to be reviewed by a senior ICE official. However, the GAO found that the agency didn’t bother to do this in 70% of the cases.
Historically, non-citizens have been vital to the nation’s military success. More than 100,000 lawful permanent residents have served in the U.S. armed forces since 2001.
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