Under Trump, DoD Is Abruptly Discharging Immigrants Serving in Army on Scurrilous Grounds

The white supremacist Trump administration has abruptly discharged dozens of immigrant U.S. Army reservists and recruits, the Associated Press reports.

Martha Mendoza and Garance Burke report:

The AP was unable to quantify how many men and women who enlisted through the special recruitment program have been booted from the Army, but immigration attorneys say they know of more than 40 who have been discharged or whose status has become questionable, jeopardizing their futures.

'It was my dream to serve in the military,' said reservist Lucas Calixto, a Brazilian immigrant who filed a lawsuit against the Army last week. 'Since this country has been so good to me, I thought it was the least I could do to give back to my adopted country and serve in the United States military.'

An Army report obtained by an immigration attorney, featured in an AP video, notes that one servicemember was discharged after Army investigators discovered an American flag on the man's cell phone and an Army bumper sticker on his car, activity that the Army claimed in a report is "suspicious."

This is more purging of American society by the Trump adminstration which has become openly racist and aggressive in the preceding weeks following its targeting of immigrant families and the forced relocation of children into internment centers and cages.