Looking at census data, about 200-220,000 serving members of the US military are either foreign born themselves (60-100,000), or have immigrant parents (100-180,000). Assuming those parents are legal immigrants, then about 65% of them are naturalised. So about 25-30,000 members of the US military have parents at risk of detention by the immigration authorities, and potentially deported. So that's about 2-3 divisions worth of men and women who might decided to not re-enlist, in order to support their kith and kin, potentially leaving the US to return to nations of origin, resulting in both a loss of skills from the US military, but potentially transfer of those skills to countries that are currently hostile to US interests.
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