Pace, born of Italian parents, could still recall fighting in the Vietnam War alongside immigrant soldiers. According to him, he's still on active duty today for one primary reason, and it's because he still owe those who served with him in Vietnam. Meanwhile, John Warner, the Republican from Virginia who heads the Senate Committee, stressed that there are 23,400 soldiers in the US Armed Forces who are not US citizens. Also, several speakers said that thousands of undocumented migrants in the United States who risk arrest and deportation are relatives of foreign-born soldiers fighting in the US military.
