Selective Service Encourages Undocumented Men to Sign Up

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Selective Service Encourages Undocumented Men to Sign Up

.By Ruxandra Guidi

February 17, 2011

SAN DIEGO — According to U.S. law, a man must register with the Selective Service within 30 days of his 18th birthday. Yet only about 25 percent of American citizens are signed up, and no one knows how many undocumented people have done so.

Selective Service spokesperson Dan Amon said the agency has always struggled to get more undocumented men to sign up.

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This recent development is puzzling many immigrants and their lawyers around the Southwest, where Selective Service will start to get out the word over the next few months.

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"It could be some sort of a sign that there may be something happening in the government as far as part of a big reform that will come up," said Sapochnick. "It could be that this is just the beginning because they told this agency to start doing this. I find it hard to believe that this is going to be the case, but who knows?"

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2011/feb/17/selective-service-encourages-undocumented-men-sign/

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1. We should not even have the SSS anymore

It's a waste of money and we have not had a draft in 38 years. If the government needed to bring back the draft, they have the tools to come and find citizens of military age.