The U.S. government is reportedly attempting to play an interesting game of tit for tat. It’s offering undocumented Mexican immigrants a free pass to citizenship if they agree to fight for the U.S. in Iraq. Univision reports:

The U.S. government is carrying out recruitment campaigns aimed at Mexicans, mostly without papers, who are interested in going to the war in Iraq in exchange for citizenship, according to the El Universal newspaper.

Ildefonso Ortiz Cabrera told the Mexican newspaper that he received the “invitation” when he was living in Phoenix, Arizona. He then decided to return to El Burrión, a town in Northern Sinaloa.

Isn’t it ironic that the government invites undocumented immigrants to fight but then forgets about the families of soldiers who have already done time in Iraq? Perhaps they know they probably won’t ever have to make good on the citizenship offer, since some won’t make it back alive.

Via / Univision

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