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Mass Migration, Globalism, And The Diminishing of Citizenship

Pawel Styrna — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 13:58:55 +0000

Historian Victor Davis Hanson’s latest book may not be the kind of optimistic, feel-good reading that many would wish for at a time when the U.S. is facing multiple crises, from the disaster at the southern border to catastrophe in Afghanistan to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and a bad economy. But as much as The [...]

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Big City Newspaper Runs Op-ed Questioning Why “Habitual Drunkenness” Should Be a Disqualification for Citizenship

Ira Mehlman — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 20:55:05 +0000

The headline in the Philadelphia Inquirer’s opinion page stopped me in my tracks. ‘Habitual drunkenness’ is not a reason to deny someone like me U.S. citizenship, it read. I checked again to make sure that I was actually looking at the most important newspaper in the nation’s sixth largest city, and had not accidently (drunkenly) [...]

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The U.S. Citizenship Test Should Be Challenging

Pawel Styrna — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 18:29:40 +0000

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency responsible for administering the naturalization exam, is revising the citizenship test – allegedly making it more difficult – according to CNN. Although the agency announced its intention of changing the civics portion of the exam and formalizing a decennial revision process in 2019 (the last time [...]

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New Bill Would Bar Chinese Communist Party Members from Gaining Citizenship

Preston Huennekens — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:17:24 +0000

On June 15, Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-Penn.) introduced H.R. 7724, the End Chinese Communist Citizenship Act. This important bill would tailor further provisions in U.S. immigration law preventing the naturalization of immigrants who possess membership in a totalitarian organization and specifically target members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Rep. Reschenthaler’s bill tightens the language [...]

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From Syria Without Love: Future Jihadist Went to the ‘Front of the Line’

Bob Dane — Tue, 26 May 2020 17:17:26 +0000

The Syrian-born son of a naturalized U.S. citizen was killed trying to shoot his way onto a Naval installation in Texas last week. A security loophole in America’s immigration system opened the way for Adam Salim Alsahli’s suicide mission. According to reports, Alsahli, 20, drove to the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station wearing an Arab [...]

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Fears That Citizenship Question Would Lower Response Rates Fizzle Out

Jennifer G. Hickey — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 19:44:12 +0000

One of the primary arguments made by those opposed to including a citizenship question on the 2020 census was that doing so would deter Hispanics, Asian-Americans, and other immigrants from participating. Preliminary results from the 2019 Census Test conducted this summer actually show it would have little impact on response rates. “The major finding of [...]

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