Pentagon recruitment for Iraq patrols targeted Latinos and noncitizen Mexicans

Evidence

Federally fueled profiling in fact proliferates in other significant areas of state administration, most notably in the Pentagon’s explicit ethnoracial poverty draft, namely, the targeting of Latinos, American Indians, and noncitizen Mexicans for recruitment to man street patrols in the enduring Iraqi occupation. President Bush’s profiling policy thus exemplifies the logic of racial americanization perfectly well: appear to strike racial reference from formal public dictate – indeed, do so with the best of intentions – while endorsing its covert extension, in private and public interactions, especially in cases of national and “homeland” security. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 468

Categorization

• QUESTION: The ‘ethnoracial poverty draft’ claim that Latinos, American Indians, and noncitizen Mexicans were specifically targeted for Iraq street patrols deserves verification — was there documented targeting in recruitment materials?
• XREF: Recalls the general literature on disproportionate minority casualties in the Iraq war (e.g. the ‘military poverty draft’ debate).