Canadian nationality law

In “Be American,” Carlos Bulosan reveals the lack of choice a Filipino had at the time through the story of someone’s cousin, Consorcio, and his struggle to gain citizenship in America. Bulosan’s short story shares this idea of no choice with a political cartoon known as “What Will He Do,” which depicts President McKinley deciding whether or not to keep the Philippines or “send them to Spain” while the globe watches for his decision. Through the visual of President McKinley making a decision for…

1. What is your definition of “citizenship” and what you consider to be your “actual” responsibilities as a citizen? My definition of citizenship is when someone loves, respects, shares common knowledge of American culture and its history. I believe that all people should be able to have citizenship of the country they were born in; and for those that want to gain citizenship should be required to pass a citizenship exam, along with current American citizens. Individuals wanting to come to…

phrase, ‘subject to its jurisdiction’ was intended to exclude from its operation children of ministers, consuls, and citizens or subjects of foreign States born within the United States .” Eastman quoting Thomas Cooley of his treaties of Constitutional law “meant full and complete jurisdiction to which citizens are generally subject, and not any qualified and partial jurisdiction, such as may consist with allegiance to some other government .” Thus, in order to become a US citizen any person…

It is argued that immigrants should have to assimilate to the culture of the new country they are migrating to rather than not assimilating and going about their daily lives the way they normally do. However, not very many people discuss the ways in which immigrants can learn how to assimilate and what assimilating in entails. Learning the language of the new country is just one step in integrating into that country, along with becoming a citizen and the steps that come with it, and getting any…

citizenship status, regardless of the specific particulars of their economic standing, gender, race, religion, national origin, etc., have equal standing before the law and are formally equivalent to one another (page 20, Vials).” I remember rereading that sentence a couple of times to let it soak in, because I felt a sense of connection to it somehow. I am unsure of how the twins felt, but as an immigrant in this…

estimation of the relationship between Lower Canada 's French Canadian and British Canadian communities in the 1830s. This is because of both the languages were not well respected to one another. There relations were not working well together. As in employment, French-Canadian Quebecers were earning the lowest wage in all of the ethnic groups in Canada. Other complaints were that the top jobs in Quebec were given most to English speaking Canadians. That’s when the Francophone-Anglophone alliance…

brought up the question of children born to illegal people on American soil. At least one federal appellate has noted that such a policy "makes no sense" and that "Congress would not be disobeying the Constitution if they amended the Immigration and Nationality Act to put an end to the nonsense." Due to section 5 of the 14th amendment Congress has the final say. Section 5 of the 14th amendment gives Congress the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this…

There are currently approximately 12-20 million undocumented workers in the United States. People want to come to the United States, not just for freedom; they want to make their lives better with career and life opportunities. However, these opportunities cause them and their families to be separated. Without a doubt, the best policies should allow for immigrants to go through a path to citizenship in the United States, and the government should not institute harsh policies such as the wall…

Coming to the United states is already a challenge and sacrifice, so becoming a United States citizen shouldn’t be. I believe becoming a United States citizen is too expensive and the process too long. Many families have broken apart while looking for a better opportunity in this country because they believe coming to this country life will be easier. I recognize people win much more money here than other countries; however, one would never imagine the cost and the duration of naturalization…

Do you smell that? Unfortunately, we all do. It’s the lovely fucking scent of Capitalism which can be smelt as early as grade school. It’s an invisible teacher hiding in the background taking a ruler and spanking your kids on the ass. No…. This isn’t a Catholic school. It’s today’s enrollment of Capitalistic University. A school where the only way to drop out is to die. America’s youth has been brainwashed by our educational as well as governmental system on how to live li. “Get good grades.…