Supporting the troops (whilst pandering to rabid anti-immigrant lobby)

Hicham Benkabbou is a Sergeant in the US Army and he has served nearly two years in Iraq. He is also a Moroccan who has applied for US citizenship. As soon as he returns from his tour in Iraq he has to face a deportation hearing because of irregularities in his citizenship application. Apparently he did not mention his first marriage which was annulled. The move to deport Sgt. Benkabbou is surprising in that there is an INS directive that advises against the deportation of members of the armed forces unless they are believed to be "involved in drug trafficking, crimes against children or violence, or unless they pose a danger to the public". Perhaps it is the "danger to the public" clause that has caught out Sgt. Benkabbou as he is, after all, a Muslim and therefore it is only a matter of time before he becomes a terrorist.

Either that or the INS is aware that he speaks and reads three languages (Arabic, English and French) fluently and that is an embarrassment in a country where the natives can barely manage fluency in even one.