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I know a guy who joined to go fight in Iraq because he wanted to sponsor his mother who is old and sick.
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And then what? Noncitizen immigrants are barred from all public benefits, specifically Medicare. If you’re ineligible for Medicare, the United States is not a very good place to be old and sick.
Unless he wanted to drive his mother to TJ for routine checkups, of course.