It may come as a surprise to some, but you don't have to be a citizen to enlist in the U.S. military. Over the last decade, tens of thousands of non-citizens have volunteered to fight for their adopted country.
Many see service as a fast track to naturalization, but it doesn't always work out that way.
A new article in the current issue of Playboy magazine sheds light on the thousands of veterans who have been deported after serving in the US military. Reporter Erin Siegal McIntyre joins the show with more.
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Take Two for August 1, 2013
- Social media key in finding suspects in Huntington Beach riots
- Congress receives scant sexual harassment training
- Five Catholic orders turn over priest files to public
- DefCon brings together hackers and government organizations
- Study shows threat of arrest not deterring undocumented immigrants
- Thousands of US veterans deported after service
- State Of Affairs: DWP contract, Anaheim voting and more
- Utilities commission says it will regulate app-based ridesharing services like Uber, Lyft
- Two mothers hope to end the breast vs. formula feeding war
- Report: Climate change and California's rising sea levels
- First school to reorganize under parent trigger law reopens
- Dinner Party Download: Bug incubators, match-making rewards and Mona Lisa theft
- Pasadena's Gamble House opens up servants quarters to public (Photos)