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America has a long history of creating second-class citizens. In 1807, New Jersey removed the vote for women and free people of color. In the 1820s and 1830s, the Court decided that Native Americans no longer owned their land, once it had been...
by CorpFlunky
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 10:01 AM PDT
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I applied to work for the 1990 Census expecting to spend several months in a nice, dull office, shuffling papers. Instead, I was issued a badge, a natty plastic brief case, a pile of forms and a list of names, and sent to work as a Non Response...
by MeJean
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on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 04:53 PM PST
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At the dawn of the 20th century, a spirited force of nature took the helm of the United States: the 26th President, Teddy Roosevelt. His mythos could hardly be more potent: a sickly child who, by sheer refusal to accept his lot (and the benefit of a...
by organboy
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on Wed Oct 04, 2023 at 01:05 PM PDT
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Old news (9/9/23) ... GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Friday he would deport the children of undocumented immigrants with their families, despite them already being U.S. citizens. New news (9/21/23, ~ 9am) … Ramaswamy, born in the U.S....
by LapDog
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on Thu Sep 21, 2023 at 10:36 AM PDT
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In 1867, Frederick Douglass, a former slave, an abolitionist, an orator and writer, and a spokesperson for civil rights for all Americans, addressed immigration to the United States and defined what it means to be an American. At the time, the national...
by Alan Singer
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on Sun Jul 02, 2023 at 01:40 PM PDT
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Today is the fifth anniversary of my family receiving our green cards as we became legal permanent residents of the United States. Accordingly, today is also the day we are officially eligible to become citizens of this country. We moved here, as is so...
by Hali2Cali
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on Thu Jun 08, 2023 at 07:03 PM PDT
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USCIS says fee increase plan would aid asylum system, but some worry about harm to low-income people Employer and family-based immigration would see significant application fee increases under a proposal announced by the Biden administration this week. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which runs nearly entirely off of application...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Wed Jan 04, 2023 at 09:39 AM PST
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George Santos, R-NY, may really be R-Brazil. Talking Points Memo spotted yet one more questionable part of Santos’s resume, reported in the Port Washington Patch: George Santos' Former NY Coworkers Fill In Murky Biography Barbara Hurdas said she...
by Dan K
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on Sat Dec 24, 2022 at 02:37 PM PST
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The Biden administration announced this month that more than 967,000 immigrants were naturalized as U.S. citizens in the 2022 fiscal year, marking one of the biggest years in U.S. history. But that wasn’t the only encouraging trend from 2022. Visa...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Fri Dec 16, 2022 at 12:42 PM PST
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The Biden administration has begun reviving the Task Force on New Americans, a welcoming initiative that fell to the wayside under the nativist policies of the previous administration. President Biden signed an executive order last year reconvening the...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Tue Dec 13, 2022 at 08:50 AM PST
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Following a change in administrations and a slew of government and nongovernmental initiatives encouraging naturalization, more than 967,000 immigrants became Americans on paper during the 2022 fiscal year, marking one of the highest rates in U.S....
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Thu Dec 08, 2022 at 09:23 AM PST
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U.S. military members and veterans will be among the thousands of immigrants sworn in as Americans in a series of naturalization ceremonies this Veterans Day. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said Thursday that nearly 4,000 immigrants...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Fri Nov 11, 2022 at 12:28 PM PST
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More than 1.5 million immigrants have been naturalized as U.S. citizens since 2020, the National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA) has announced. The figure represents more than three-quarters of a goal asked by the organization last year. That...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Mon Nov 07, 2022 at 08:22 AM PST
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Robert Garcia, who currently serves as the Mayor of Long Beach, California, will become the first Peruvian person to serve in U.S. Congress. Garcia, a favorite to win, joins Rep. David Cicilline as the second openly LGBTQ+ mayor to serve in Congress...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Wed Nov 09, 2022 at 07:19 AM PST
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This article was originally published at Prism
It’s been over a year since U.S. forces abruptly left Afghanistan, leaving the Taliban in control of the country and forcing tens of thousands of ...
by Alexandra Martinez
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on Sun Oct 16, 2022 at 08:15 AM PDT
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This article was originally published at Prism
On June 15, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program officially turned 10. The program has ...
by Alexandra Martinez
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on Tue Jun 28, 2022 at 08:20 AM PDT
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Immigrants whose paperwork has been delayed and has prevented them from competing the naturalization process have filed a lawsuit against the federal government. Among them is Ali Mohammed, a permanent resident who told The Wall Street Journal that...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Thu May 26, 2022 at 12:41 PM PDT
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by Roberto Camacho
This article was originally published at Prism .
The U.S. military utilizes a number of different recruitment methods to garner new enlistments, but their target audience ...
by Prism Guest Writer
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on Thu Apr 21, 2022 at 08:15 AM PDT
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There’s a Paul Simon song, I believe it is “Have a Good Time,” in which these lines (or something like very like them, if my memory is inaccurate) occur: God bless the U. S. A.— God bless our standard of living. Let’s keep it that way. I really like...
by hontonoshijin
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on Fri Apr 15, 2022 at 10:34 AM PDT
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Immigration attorney Susan Cohen tells The Wall Street Journal that she represents a married Boston couple (both have opted to keep their names private) who filed their citizenship applications in fall 2020. But even though both submitted their...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Mon Jan 24, 2022 at 09:13 AM PST
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