The American Foreign Legion

Slow news day, so I'm going to debut my idea for an American Foreign Legion (AFL). Much like the French Foreign Legion (FFL), it would offer a solution to two big problems facing the country today. Illegal Immigrants and the need for more soldiers.

With the FFL, after you serve your term, you're granted French Citizenship. The AFL would do the same (at least until it merges with the winner of the NFL v. CIO steel cage match). This way we could offer citizenship to those who earn it by protecting and serving American up front. No need to climb fences and take you chances in the desert to get to America (although those are useful skills for military service - I guess actually they would be climbing walls and braving deserts, but now we'd call it Basic Training). Anyway, who would begrudge citizenship to anyone who served in the military?

Plus, just think about how all those able bodied recruits would help fill out our military. We could actually let the National Guard go home, we could bring our basic recruitment standards up, and imagine how bi-lingual our AFL would be.

I say, bring 'em in, let them serve five years, let them gain skills, they'll have to learn the language, they'd have the opportunity to gain an education, all while helping our military, it's a win, win..win...and...win.