Don Bacon: Army discharged immigrant recruits to fix vulnerabilities of failed program

https://www.omaha.com/news/nation/morton/don-bacon-army-discharged-immigrant-recruits-to-fix-vulnerabilities-of/article_8e7d5ed0-7909-5e52-bef2-93219c911dc5.html WASHINGTON — Rep. Don Bacon is defending the abrupt discharges of some immigrant U.S. Army reservists and recruits who enlisted with a promised path to citizenship. The Omaha area’s Republican congressman said Friday that the program involved was supposed to be a narrowly targeted way for the military to acquire specialized talents from foreign nationals. But, Bacon said, the Army ramped up the program well beyond what was intended, failed to do adequate background checks on the recruits from the start and is now having to go back through to weed out potential bad actors.