Naturalization

Though the intent of the laws was prevention of the aiding and abetting of France within the United States, the laws each had political implications. According to Taylor (2016), these laws were: The Naturalization Act, The Alien Act, The Alien Enemies Act and the Sedition Act. The Naturalization Act lengthened the stay required for citizenship from five years to fourteen years. The Alien Act allowed for detention of enemy aliens in times of war without trial or counsel. The Alien Enemies Act…

‘长文公’ is a particular Chinese address used in old China. Therefore, people in foreign countries are more likely familiar with the name –Zhu Xi because it is a name of a well-known person in Song dynasty. In this view, the translation is well done. Naturalization translation method refers to adopt a cultural term in the target language to replace the original one in the source language (Aixelá, 1996). For example, in Wu Chang or Life-Is-Transient, ‘阴司间’ is translated as ‘the Court of Hell’ (Lu,…

Imagine this being your reality or a part of your daily life for you or someone you know. This crippling fear of deportation affects how individuals even go about seeking medical assistance simply because they fear being reported to Immigration and Naturalization Service (Immigration Status and Health, 2017). The constant stress of fearing deportation also…

As you are aware, the rate of school shootings have increased drastically. We need more control on who is capable of buying guns. I truly understand that the Second Amendment states that people have the right to bear arms and the terms shall not be broken. But in this case there have been more school shootings in this year alone than in any other country. I respect the Second Amendment, but children are dying over it. Something has to change, the gun policies have to have more restrictions with…

Immigration and naturalization have been a huge discussion and concern among the Latino community since the three big Latino group: Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Mexican came to the United States of America. For Latino to be naturalized is to be an American and have a citizenship status in the United States. To become a U.S. citizen has always been a hard pathway so to ease the Latino access to naturalization, Congress made a proposal in 2001 that aims at undocumented immigrants youths. The proposal…

Before we delve into the Dawes Act, let us take a look back at the long list of ways we Americans tried to contain or change the Native Americans to fit our standards and needs. From the time explorers arrived in America, white men and natives were in a constant state of fighting and white men were in a constant state of greediness. Americans took the natives as slaves, used them for our own gain only to throw them to the wolves, or rather wilderness, with hardly anything to call their own,…

law, but the 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights challenged this, becoming the direct model for the Bill of Rights in 1789. The ideas of the revolution led more and more Americans to want a society based on the equality of rights, despite the Naturalization Act of 1790 which stated that only free whites with at least two years of residence could apply for citizenship. Congress banned the importing of new slaves from Africa in 1808, and this was followed by many reforms that made slavery less…

In addition to the need for security, pre-existing xenophobia fueled Japanese Internment. Since the foundation of the United States, the country has picked a different group of people to ostracize. The anti-Japanese sentiment roots towards the hatred for the Chinese people’s menial job takeover, which began during the Gold Rush. Americans were afraid that the Chinese, and eventually the Japanese, would steal all the jobs. This created a lot of hostility among working class Americans and even…

gatherings occupied with the movement strategy face off regarding. On the off chance that the effect of mass movement is politically nonpartisan, there is no motivation to be worried that bodies electorate will change obviously by the settlement and naturalization of fresh introductions. All things considered, migration may have financial and social effects that ought to be expected, however nobody need be worried about political movements. The evolving economy, the welfare's extension express,…

membership policy, the “law pertaining to the entry of noncitizens and their continued stay in the United States" (879). For a long time, the federal government had the authority to control and regulate who was admitted to the polity, which is the naturalization policy, and who was allowed to enter in the nation-state, which is the immigration policy. Immigration policy is considered as foreign policy since the late 19th century. Immigration laws are only the concern of the legislative and…