Citizenship

Immigrants need a clear, cut way to achieve citizenship here in the States. The most important topic of the 2016 election is Immigration Reform. The United States’ Immigration Policy is antiquated and needs updating. For instance, even though President Obama took executive action in 2014 to allow people…

“This type of policy will act as a magnet that will further foster illegal immigration, especially the smuggling in of children. The next demand from the open borders lobby, now that these people have legal status, will be demands to give them citizenship and voting rights.”. Showing that they are firm on what they believe, they believe Obama did many acts that violated the U.S.…

homestead acts to encourage the westward immigration of whites and, in particular, women .” It is worthy to note that during that century the Federal Government passed bills that residency/citizenship are attached to the right of property. In other words, it was given to the newcomers an opportunity to get US citizenship if they purchased lands in the new territories and settled down there permanently. These deals were given especially to people from West or East…

Third and final requirement is completion of two years of college or two years in the armed service. Community service is one important aspect of this bill. To be considered for citizenship, undocumented children must complete five hundred hours of community service. Starting in grade School these undocumented children will be required participate in community outreach programs. Programs like City year and Year up reach out to at…

crossing paths. (Molina 2014: 6) Molina argues that the perceived position of a group is represented when its members are seen as relative to other groups through this space identified in the definition of racial scripts. For Mexicans, the lack of citizenship in combination with racial scripts has led to the dominant group expropriating a resource produced by members of racialzed groups preventing them from realizing the full value…

Crito illustrated by Plato’s character Socrates is both persecuted and cherished with disagreements and oppositions within his ancient Athenian community. Socrates pledged a new kind of citizenship resisting the traditional ways that was based on the poetic speculation of Homer. Socrates’ philosophical citizenship is based on relying on one’s virtue, powers of independent reason, and judgment. Even though Socrates spoke heavily on human excellence and positive peace, he was incriminated by the…

Immigration and Nationality Act has been effective as of 1952 (History of U.S. Immigration Laws). When the act came into effect, any immigrant that was residing in the United States had to obtain U.S. citizenship following the laws of the immigration and nationality act. Many immigrants were upset and believed they should automatically become a citizen especially if they had resided in the United States for many years however they had to follow the long process in order to become an U.S. citizen…

The argument for separate but equal precludes the notion that, separate but equal is not inherently connected to the American system of racially-based slavery. However, I find this claim to contradict and violate the very nature of the Thirteenth Amendment. In segregating the two races of the nation, we draw on the previous caste of bondage. We inherit the distinctions and prejudices of this previous system in our attempts to regulate race relations, to segregate the lives of Whites from those…

Citizenship is what connects all Americans together; to be considered a citizen of the United States of America you must have been born in the United States or gain citizenship through Naturalization. Naturalization is a way United States citizenship is granted to an immigrant if and only after he/she completes the necessities that are given to them by Congress in the Immigration and Nationality Act. The rights of an American Citizen are very important because in other countries the people don't…

Thus in the Slaughter house cases (1873) 16 Wallace 36 and III J Hunn v. Illinois the court was prepared only to accept the procedural interpretations of Due Process and was not prepared to "Constitute the Court as a perpetual censor upon all legislation of the States, on the civil rights of their own citizens, with authority to nullify such as it did not approve as consistent with those rights". The facts of these cases may be noted to be as under: The slaughter house cases (1873) 16 Wallace…