Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit DAVID GREENE, HOST: We're going to hear now about a U.S. military recruitment program. It is for noncitizens, and it's designed to take advantage of professional and language skills that the Pentagon might need - everything from Arabic to Uzbek and also including Chinese. But hundreds who signed up for this program are now exposed to the risk of deportation, including one Chinese recruit who was arrested in New Jersey last week. NPR's Quil Lawrence reports that the recruit fears reprisals from the Chinese government if he is deported. QUIL LAWRENCE, BYLINE: Immigrants have served in the U.S. military since the Revolutionary War. More recently, the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest program, or MAVNI, was a way for the Army to specifically seek out language skills and recruit people like Shu Luo, a Chinese citizen who graduated from George Washington University with a degree in data analytics. MARGARET STOCK: He loves America. He
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