Los Angles Times editorial: Sign the Kendell Frederick Act
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That it takes an act of Congress to streamline the citizenship process for immigrants willing to fight for this country is ‘more than a travesty; it is a crime against American history,’ says this Los Angeles Times editorial.
The piece urges the signing of the Kendell Frederick Act, named after Army Spc. Kendell K. Frederick, who was from Trinidad but serving in the U.S Army in Iraq. He was killed when a roadside bomb hit his convoy in Tikrit as he was returning from a U.S Embassy outpost in Iraq to submit fingerprints -- which the military already had -- for his citizen application.
-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City