United States nationality law

How Illegal Immigration Laws Affects the Economic in Texas While there is a plenty of undocumented immigrants crossing the border illegally to Texas. These undocumented immigrants seem to have great impact toward the Texas’ economics. According to the information that were published by Morgan Winsor, “A study showed that immigration think tank called the ‘Migration Policy Institute’ found that Texas would lose $69.3 billion in economic activity, $30.8 billion in gross state product and roughly…

does not matter – in the U.S.A. today. Move beyond the issues and examples that Fuentes discusses to extend and/or challenge Fuentes's thinking. Race still matters in the United States, however, it should not be an ongoing issue that continues to separate us from being equal. Social class, education status, sexuality, nationality, and gender are all factors that tend to play a substantial role in our current lives. Race can also be the reason why certain individuals encounter day-to-day…

new era that would become known as the period of Reconstruction in United States history. Despite the Union’s victory and the end of legalized slavery, southern minority groups affected by slavery, especially African Americans, found little respite from oppression (Eric Foner 567). White supremacy rose in the south as restrictive legislation such as the Black Codes and the Jim Crow Laws maintained the deep color divide . Such laws only fueled the fire, leading to extreme discrimination and…

government created by our Founding Fathers was founded in order to protect the rights of citizens and not to fear the government. Our second amendment clearly states, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,” (Cornell University Law School). But how do this tie into the twenty-first century and the continuing change of the public view on gun control? There has been more gun violence…

to split a country wide apart-is alien to our way of thinking and to our cultural traditions. This may be changing. On August 1 of last year the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill that would make English the official language of the United States. The vote was 259 to 169, with 223 Republicans and thirty-six Democrats voting in favor and eight Republicans, 160 Democrats, and one independent voting against. The debate was intense, acrid, and partisan.…

The cultural mix embodied in Roro and, to lesser extent, in Yasmin can be explained by a hypothesis that suggests “...identity is no longer defined as a state of being but of becoming. Identity, then, is to be fitted with the attributes of the multifarious, the incomplete and the hybrid.”5 The characters, then, are portrayed as being in the state of transforming and “becoming”, as they are forced to constantly contradict the prejudice of his family to break free. In this light, the idea of…

Haitians are a group of people whose nationality is Haiti. The term Haiti is derived from Taino Indians’ language, and it means mountainous country. Haitians speak creole as their national language. Currently, the population of Haitian immigrants is 0.3 percent of the total US population (Buchanan, Albert, Beaulieu and U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). American Community Survey of 2009 reports that 81 percent of people with Haitian ancestry who live in the United States and aged 5 years and above…

restrictions. One example is Pakistan. The restriction is that dual citizenship only applies if the individual applies to one of the sixteen allowed countries. Examples of countries that have no stipulations on dual citizenship are the United States of America (USA), United Kingdom (UK) and Switzerland (Larsen, 2014). Some of the benefits of holding a dual citizenship status includes saving money while travelling, being able to travel freely to and from countries, having access to healthcare,…

The years between 1860 and 1870 presented the people of the United States and their politicians with many social and constitutional dilemmas. These challenges have been escalating through years. The Civil War and other historical events would bring the United States to the forefront of a drastic transformation. This would have lasting implications on not only those who lived through the time period, but also those who would live in the future, revolutionary America. The social and…

James Alex Plunk Government 20 Rossum In support of the newly proposed United States Constitution in 1787, three influential political theorists composed and published a series of essays, referred to as the Federalist Papers, in an effort to influence the vote in favor of ratification. The authors of the Federalist Papers were John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton. The essays are held in high regards for their insightful and detailed arguments on the justification of the Constitution.…