The Army has long had shortages of health care workers and speakers of certain languages , and in 2009 it started doing what other industries, including the medical field have done: It looked to skilled immigrants. A program, called Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest or MAVNI, recruited thousands of foreigners already in this country who were seeking citizenship. But hundreds who signed up have been exposed to the risk of deportation — including Shu Luo, a Chinese recruit who was arrested in New Jersey last week. Margaret Stock, a retired lieutenant colonel who helped create the MAVNI program for the army, says the military badly needs people like Luo, who has a masters degree in statistics from George Washington University. "We need people who are fluent in Chinese and English, who have graduated from top universities in the United States, and who are loyal to the United States of America," says Stock, who became an immigration lawyer after leaving the military, and is
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