United States nationality law

frowned upon but many people still to this day allow xenophobia to fill their minds with negativity, and it is now the time that the US citizens should change this way of thinking to not what race a person is considered to be but their combined nationality as Americans. During the times of slavery African Americans were treated very poorly and were considered animalistic compared to the whites that made up most of the American population. They were whipped, starved, murdered, and abused if…

reforms because I am an immigrant who migrated to the United States in March of 2001. I came from Bogota, Colombia where I was born I moved to a country that my father previously lived for over twenty years attending middle school, high school and university studies at Boston University also to a mother who frequently traveled to the United States for business and travel adventures. The United States was founded by immigrants I believe the United States is the home for immigrants and the land…

smuggling and bootlegging liquor, and became quite profitable. Alcohol was smuggled in from Mexico and Canada, also being shipped from abroad to the U.S. from Europe and the Caribbean. Canada was exporting roughly a million gallons of alcohol to the United States a year. Bootleggers made their own drinks with wood, alcohol and medical supplies, sometimes causing blindness, paralysis, or death. In The Great Gatsby, and in the 1920s, bootlegging was sociably acceptable. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's…

issues, health, etc. The goal of this essay is to discuss the pros and cons that Japanese Immigrants in the United States deal with, the background of why they migrated to America in the first place, and what they do culturally both in and out of Japan. I will also be finding the similarities between Chinese, Filipino, and Japanese immigrants. Japanese immigrants migrated to the United States in search of peace and prosperity. Back in Japan these immigrants had an unstable homeland yet, in…

It is said that the United States is a melting pot. A place where people from all around the world come to chase new opportunities and to be seen as equal to the person standing next to them. The term “melting pot” came into general usage in the US after it was used as a metaphor describing a fusion of nationalities, cultures, and ethnicities. Due to new views on immigration, stricter social security laws, and racist presidential candidates, the life of an immigrant is not as it may seem. For…

affected Asian Americans and the US demographic population which were immediate and evident over time. Up until the act of 1965 Asian Americans were highly discriminated against and laws were made to keep them from immigrating to the US. “In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first law in the United States that denied immigration to a specific ethnic group” (Le, 2016). As discussed by Walter (2007) the “national origins system originally passed in 1924 in favor of a quota and…

Service. It was between the years of 1929 to 1939, an estimated 400,000 to 1 million Mexicans and Mexican Americans left the United States. Officially, many left voluntarily, though life in the United States had become undesirable for many people of Mexican descent. The mid-20th century would bring about the Bracero Program. The Bracero Program was established in 1943 by the United Stated. The program was created as a result of the labor shortage due to World War II.…

A. The United States government has never taken major action that has helped Native Americans. In it best light, the government has given a halfhearted apology in 2009. This was hidden away in a military spending bill, complete with a disclaimer that nothing it contained authorized or served as a claim against the United States government itself. At its worst, the government has slaughtered hundreds of native men, women, and children for their land and resources. This was particularly evident…

card tends to be pulled. II. Common Ground A. “Eight states -- Alabama, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nevada, Virginia and Wyoming -- permanently bar ex-felons from voting without exception. Maryland and Arizona permanently disenfranchise those convicted of a second felony, and Tennessee and Washington state permanently bar from voting felons convicted before 1986 and 1984…” (Dowdy). B. There are states constantly looking over their laws to get them changed. III. Evidence A. They served…

real property law there are two types of properties. Using legal terms, all property will be categorized as either personal property or real property. This qualification between types of property originates from English common law, however our cutting edge laws keep on distinguishing between the two. Each form of property is dealt with distinctively under the law. There are a wide range of sorts of laws that particularly relate to personal property, and numerous different sorts of laws that…