Immigrants and children of immigrants are a crucial source of personnel for the U.S. military, often due to their high school graduating class. Many students from immigrant families enlist for economic opportunity, a 2020 Department of Defense poll found. However, this sentiment is being pushed by the White House, congressional Republicans, and Republican governors and legislators in numerous states. The challenging childhoods of immigrant children often prepare them for discipline, privations, and self-sacrifice required of servicemembers. These enlistees fear that immigration and Customs Enforcement raids could arrest undocumented family members and take them away. Republicans are now trying to undermine the Supreme Court's decision to refuse children public education based on their immigration status.