Green card update: how Trump admin change could impact military families
Spouses and children of military personnel could be forced to leave the U.S. while awaiting their green card, attorneys warn.
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Forcing spouses and children of service members to pack up and wait overseas while the paperwork crawls is exactly the kind of bureaucratic nonsense people are sick of. If Washington wants to honor military families, start by not punishing them for trying to stay together while one of their own is serving this country.
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Military families already carry more than most households are asked to. Sending a service member's spouse or child out of the country while paperwork sits in a queue is not a policy anyone can call pro-military with a straight face.
Attorneys raising the alarm is not the same as a ruling, so we will see where this actually lands. But the gap between "we support the troops" and "we will deport their families while they wait for bureaucratic processing" deserves to be named plainly, not buried in immigration jargon.
Whatever your position on green cards generally, this is a narrow population with a very specific claim on the country's good faith. The administration should be able to say whether that claim counts for anything.
The party that runs on "support the troops" as a bumper sticker every two years cannot explain why a soldier's spouse gets a deportation notice while the soldier is deployed. There is no version of that policy that is pro-military, it is just anti-immigrant with a carveout they forgot to make. The attorneys raising flags are usually the last warning before the ruling, and the ruling is usually worse than the warning.