Note:
(a) Margaret Stock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Stock
("an immigrayion based in Anchorage, Alaska, and a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Reserve. She is a recognized expert on immigration law as it applies to US military personnel and veterans")(b) Qyotation (II) is based on old news:
(b) Quotation II is based on old news:
Alex Marquardt, US Army, Citing Security Concerns with Recruiting Program, Discharging Immigrants. CNN, July 9, 2018 https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/09/p ... -denials/index.html
("The MAVNI program was shut down in late 2016, during the waning days of the Obama administration, because it was deemed 'vulnerable to an unacceptable level of risk from insider threats such as espionage, terrorism, and other criminal activity' ")
The source of internal quotation is unclear. My guess is Pentagon.
(c) Quotation III (indeed this VOA report) is based on
Alex Horton, The Military Is Kicking out Foreign Recruits It Needs — for Having Foreign Ties. Washington Post, July 30, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/n ... _term=.3903bc6c383c
("Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest, or MAVNI, which enlisted more than 10,400 foreign troops in the past decade. * * * In a spate of lawsuits alleging misconduct and violation of equal protection laws, the Pentagon has reversed decisions and halted discharges")
(i) Fifth Amendment has an equal protection clause, requiring federal government to treat everyone in US equally. Fourteenth Amendment, promulgated after Civil War, has due process and equal protection clauses, requiring state government to follow procedures and equal treatment. Then Supreme Court incorporated due process into equal [totection clause of the Fifth Amendment, too. Everyone in US means literally: whatever his immigration status -- that is, even if the person is undocumented alien.
(ii) While suing US Army for rejecting him, Zicheng Li applied for political asylum (which allows one to be employed while waiting for a decision) and "helps design grain enclosures and spreaders for a farm equipment company in Minnesota."
That is manure spreader, which spread sold (not liquid), dirt-like (after composting?) material to the field. Even John Deere sells them in US, and you may watch spreaders in YouTube.com. "Winter manure spreading is illegal in most Northeast states, except for emergency exemptions.": from the Web.