The U.S. Army has halted the purge of foreign born soldiers who were recruited through a program known as Military Accessions Vital to National Interest ( MAVNI) that offers citizenship to skilled immigrants in exchange for military service. The recent expulsion policy that abruptly discharged dozens of recruits from the Service is the Army’s effort to curtail a program that its leaders say poses a security risk. The Army ordered the halt to the discharges in a memorandum dated July 20, 2018 after a handful of the discharged recruits sued in federal court, prompting widespread media coverage of the purge last month.