His staff sergeant came to his rescue and made arrangements for him to be fingerprinted at a nearby air base so he could complete this application. On October 19. with the help of his staff sergeant. he was traveling in a convoy to get his fingerprints. He didnt usually go in convoys. .but that day he was on that convoy to get his fingerprints to become an American citizento compensate for the botched mistakes of Immigrationand on his way a roadside bomb killed him. They told his mother that immigration would give Kendell U.S. citizenship. They granted his citizenship a week after he died. He was buried at Arlington. as he should have been. He was trying to do the right thing. yet he was given the wrong information. As I said. his staff sergeant tried to help him. his mother tried to help him. but the system. the immigration system. failed him time and time again. When I called his motherand I try to call all the families of our military from Maryland who die. some I reach. some I do notI spoke to his mother. She said to me that she did not want another mother to go through what she went through. to go through what her son went through. Service members and their moms and dads should not be worrying about what box to check. where the fingerprints are. et cetera. She said Immigration should know their own rules. When we explained to her the rules of Immigration. that he should have been fast tracked. that these fingerprints should have been OK. that he did not have to pay a $400 fee. she said. "Nobody told me that." Every time I called. I got different information. I am introducing legislation today to prevent this from happening again.
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