Naturalization

The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is there to estimate the amount of adult illegal aliens. This service eliminates adult illegal aliens from the school aged illegal aliens. He the states “Thus the likelihood that an illegal alien will be among those incarcerated…

age seventeen, I did not allow the added responsibilities to hinder my pursuit of a higher education. After doing five years of college with a child and joining the military, I became the first person in my family to finish college and acquire naturalization in the United…

school curriculum by requiring all high school students to take and pass a United States civics test to graduate. The states of Colorado, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and 5 others following Arizona, passed analogous laws. The exam is similar to the Naturalization test that immigrants are required to take when applying for citizenship. It consists of questions like: What is the supreme law of the land? What does the Constitution do? The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the…

border security is again being strengthened, the second aim of this bill is where the controversy comes into play; illegal resident that have lived in the U.S. for more than 5 years can become citizens by paying a fine in addition to the normal naturalization process. The only deportation advocated for is that of those with a criminal record. The Democrats trying to attain a balance between maintain order and uphold immigration laws while also respecting the individuals whose home is now the…

almost half of what was Mexico. The treaty also forced Mexico to take $15 million for half the country and gave former Mexican citizens the opportunity for US citizenship. By 1897, the In re Rodriguez case provided the “white” status allowing for naturalization of Mexicans. As more Chinese started to emigrate to the US in 1850 due to the gold rush, many white Americans started to express their resentment towards Chinese immigrants. In 1854, George Hall was a white man who murdered a Chinese…

change the injustice through the American democratic system. The Asian race, culture, and history contrasted greatly with the Caucasian majority of the United States. They were regarded as unassimilable and they were denied citizenship through naturalization. Only by birth did the Nisei were granted with citizenship. The Nisei grew up in a time of hostile anti-Orientalism. Citizens in the frontier West regarded the Chinese immigrants, who helped build the railroad, equivalent to black slaves…

This policy empowered British naval commanders to forcibly “draft” British into service in an emergency. The problem was that British often worked on neutral vessels like those of the United States, and the British also refused to recognize the naturalization laws of the United States. Jefferson accepted the right of the British to impress legitimate British citizens from American merchant vessels, but he was irked when…

In her book, “A Nation of Immigrants and Gatekeeping Nation: American Immigration Law and Policy,” Erika Lee argues that the United States has this “deep-rooted ambivalence” toward immigration. She suggests that the ambivalence stems from the America’s seemingly contradictory and flip-flopping nature of immigration policies and such notions are negative. While I agree with her point that the US is ambivalent on immigration, I do not see how that is a massive problem that Lee makes it out to be.…

groups because of their British ancestry. In the 18th century, in order to be economically sustainable and militarily secure from indigenous threats, settlers promoted emigration by other European communities. They also simplified the process of naturalization, which however required foreigners to be or become protestants, to attract more immigrants. Still, French Catholics, Native Americans and African slaves were seen as enemies by the colonists. American settlers started to feel discontent as…

Portes, A., & Stepick, A. (1985). Unwelcome immigrants: The labor market experiences of 1980 (Mariel) Cuban and Haitian refugees in South Florida. American Sociological Review, 493-514. The article, “Unwelcome Immigrants: The labor market experiences of 1980 (Mariel) Cuban and Haitian Refugees in South Florida”, by Alejandro Portes, and Alex Stepick, gives an in depth perspective of the struggles of Cuban, and Haitian refugee who immigrated to America in 1980. The article focuses on…