The Associated Press reported this week that the U.S. Army is “quietly discharging immigrant recruits.” It sounds quite awful, but the report may be more misleading than anything else.

The AP stated initially that the Army “has moved in recent weeks to discharge immigrant recruits and reservists who enlisted through a program that promised them a path to citizenship. Some of these service members say they weren’t told why they were being discharged. Others say the Army told them they’d been labeled as security risks because they have relatives abroad or because their background checks were pending.”