United States nationality law

212-231. Leisy Janet Abrego is an associate professor at UCLA, in Latina/o Studies, Central Americans in the U.S., Gender, Families, Immigration Laws in Everyday Life. Some of her other work include “Legitimacy, social identity, and the mobilization of law: The effects of Assembly Bill 540 on undocumented students in California”, “Legal Violence: Immigration Law and the Lives of Central American Immigrants1”, “Parents and children across borders”, and many more articles. In the article “I can’t…

Turned Upside Down), is talking about the emotions faced by key founding members of our country, they specifically highlight Marquis de Lafayette. Lafayette was a French citizen however, several individuals, (including the state of Maryland) considered him to be a United States citizen, as he shared many of the common values our founding fathers did. While this specifically relates to Marquis de Lafayette, we can see the same debate being applied to illegal immigrants today. This is especially…

The United States was built upon the ideas of freedom, equality, and justice. We have all grown up reciting the pledge of allegiance and stated “Liberty and justice for all”. Liberty equates to freedom to do whatever one chooses as long as it is not affecting someone else freedom. Justice is the concept of not being judged and/or prosecuted without trial or habeas corpus. The term all refers to everyone, no matter race, color, creed, social economic status, citizenship, religion,…

Some states, such as Colorado and California, have already legalized marijuana; this has been to their benefit. These have seen an increase in tax revenues and colorado has only a observed small increase in hospitalization (Andrew A Monte, 2015). A high tax system may create a new source of income for individual states and the federal government. A low tax system may stimulate the economy and drive out illegal…

Lindsay G. Robertson's Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands centers on the landmark 1823 Supreme Court case Johnson vs. M'Intosh. Robertson's research provides previously undiscovered knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the case, placing the case in a new context. Robertson tells the story of a costly mistake, one made by the American judicial system but paid for by indigenous people who to this day suffer from the effects of…

mostly in the power of the state government because if a local government makes a law to ban a certain thing the state can make a law staying that, that thing cannot be banned. People wonder why the State government makes laws that are against what the local want and “the answer is money.” (White) Just from the natural resource industries the states representatives receive “3.8 million” (White) which would be an average of 25,000 per person and that is why they made a law that local cities…

larger system, and of a broad series of patterns in the "juridical field" in general. Not surprisingly, Bourdieu takes the law to be a constitutive force in modern liberal societies. Thus, many of his perceptions and conclusions concerning how the law functions within such societies apply as well to the United States as to France. Bourdieu's essay considers the "world of the law" from several related points of view: the conceptions that professionals working within the legal world have of their…

Chinese Exclusion Act, this was the first time that United States passed a law that would not allow entry to a specific ethnic group in this case from China, Japan or any other Oriental countries. The act was targeting mainly Chinese workers, those who were unskilled and even those who were skilled but, they did make small exceptions with teachers, students, or officials. Middle class Chinese workers first became interested in the United States during the California Gold Rush around 1884,…

The American National Identity and Ethnocentric Attitudes In America, there is the widely celebrated notion that anyone can achieve success and experience freedom and justice with hard work. However, there is also the contentious view that America was built upon structures of racial and social hierarchies. According to Samuel P. Huntington in his book Who Are We?: The Challenges to America’s National Identity, he argues that even though the salience of American national identity is always…

United States v. Viktor Kozeny 1. Issue: The FCPA does not allow the giving of anything of value as a reward for an act or choice of a foreign official in his official capacity, any case of persuading such an official to commit or dismiss an act of infringement on the constitutional obligation of such an official, or acquiring a wrongful advantage to acquire or maintain business with or for any individual. The law does however afford an affirmative defense for disbursements that are…