protecting your country also includes caring for the people who live in it. Americans were not fulfilling these duties while internment camps were going on. For four years‚ Japanese–American citizens really questioned exactly how much their U.S. citizenship really protected and kept them safe from harm and danger. The fear and pain that they went through should have had some sort of affect on the people responsible for these horrid camps. This shouldn’t be the case‚ everyone should feel safe and secure
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Hispanic Americans in the Southwest In the mid to late 1800s full U.S. citizenship has been denied to Hispanics‚ full citizenship rights include the right to vote‚ own property‚ and holding political office. In the 1890s Mexican working-class children in urban areas were admitted to city schools but into segregated classes in the elementary grades‚ however; secondary or postsecondary education was not available to Hispanic Americans. Ranching‚ agriculture‚ factories and railways and the wages
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Theodore Roosevelt’s The Duties of American Citizenship Speech Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States of America. He is noted for his enthusiastic personality‚ range of interests and achievements‚ and his leadership of the Progressive Movement. Before becoming President‚ he held offices at the city‚ state‚ and federal levels. Roosevelt’s achievements as a naturalist‚ explorer‚ hunter‚ author‚ and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician
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I am a Hispanic from Mexico trying to become a U.S. citizen. I know that it is going to be hard and expensive to become a U.S. citizen. I know that I have to go through the Naturalization process by which the U.S. citizenship Is granted to a foreign citizen after he or she fulfills the requirements established by Congress in the Immigration and Nationality Act. To be Eligible for naturalization‚ you must meet certain requirements such as: Must be 18 or older‚ be a permanent
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Others have a problem with the Immigration Policy itself‚ anywhere from the rules and regulations to the enforcement of it. I don’t agree with the United States’ Immigration Policy because of the border security‚ job displacement‚ and the pathway to citizenship. The Immigration Policy consists of two ways to become a United States Citizen. The first is to be a citizen by birth and the second is called Naturalization. To be considered a citizen by birth is to be born in the United States or to have a
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Citizenship in the United States has been a sought-after dream by many people in the World. It is the reason we are the “great melting pot”‚ and the reason for the many mass immigrations that have taken place to the United States. Over the course of two centuries‚ there has been much turmoil in United States politics about giving citizenship status to immigrants. Most of the latter reasoning for not wanting to grant citizenship has been blamed justly on the prejudice of American Society. The Supreme
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admitted using drones to spy on U.S. citizens very solemnly but after the NSA tracking citizens cell phones without any kind of permission makes it very hard for people to trust anything that the government says. Drones being used violates the fourth amendment because of search and seizure. There is also a chance that these drones could be hacked and
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The U.S. citizenship test is a test that when someone wants to become a U.S. citizen test contains 100 questions but only 10 of the questions are asked and they have to answer six out of the questions. This would be a great move to legalization in America‚ there would
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Review by Howard Jordan‚ The City University of New York – Hostos Community College of book His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S. written by Emmy-award-winning journalist Geraldo Rivera. Rivera has truly emerged as a true warrior in defense of the Latino community and immigrant rights by dissecting and clarifying several myths that feed the anti-immigrant prejudice against the growing number of United States-born and foreign-born Latinos in our nation. One of the most obvious
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Also in this essay‚ Bharati speaks about her friend Mira‚ whose employer went to the Immigration and Naturalization Service to petition for her labor certification. Mira had lived in America for over 30 years and had not yet applied for American citizenship‚ however she still felt betrayed when her legal status was questioned. In Mother Tongue‚ Tan felt stereotyped in many different ways. She wrote about how her mother had been taken advantage of by people that could not understand her broken English
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