LPR’s in the Military

The Trump administration attempted to institute a policy to discriminate against Lawful Permanent Residents (LPRs) serving in the U.S. military.

Already subject to enhanced scrutiny in their required background investigations – the Trump administration put forth a policy requiring additional, ambiguously defined criteria be met for an LPR to qualify for service.

The abrupt change in policy resulted in the immediate discharge of dozens of immigrant enlistees, many of whom did not receive the crucial ‘honorably discharged’ distinction that would afford them a degree of protection from deportation.

Status

Nov. 21^th, 2018 POLICY BLOCKED

Policy blocked by federal court citing violations of the Administrative Procedures Act and referencing the administrations failure to provide any justifying rationale for the policy.

Fed Judge Blocks Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Military Enlistment Policy | ACLU (11.21.18)

Notables

Immigrant recruits, on average, outperform their average non-immigrant counterpart in performance, education, and in career performance according to a review by the nonprofit research institution the RAND Corporation.