Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in San Francisco, San Diego, and Los Angeles just finished three weeks of immigration raids. Those who ignored deportation orders or returned to the US after being deported were the targets of the effort.
At a bakery in Palm Springs, 60 agents arrested or detained 51 workers — coming out to more than one agent per detainee.
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With equal parts sincerity and critique, the Libertarian minds over at Reason magazine have put together a fully-illustrated flow chart addressing what they designate as the argument of illegal immigration opponents, the "get in line" theory. What does that line look like? Follow along and see the steps and relative wait times for each part of the process, whether to become a lawful permanent resident or a full-fledged citizen.
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Citizenship Ceremony Largest in St. Louis History They had learned English, mastered American civics, undergone extensive background checks and adapted to a new culture. A group of 1,000 new US citizens — participating in the largest naturalization ceremony in St.
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Barriers — financial and physical — could influence the makeup of newly naturalized Americans. After citizen application rates rose 70 percent, from $440 to $675, half as many people have applied for US citizenship in the beginning of this year compared to last year.
To become eligible for citizenship, a person must be a legal permanent resident who has lived continuously in the US for 5 years.
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Can I see some ID? For immigrants in San Francisco, the answer to that is "not quite yet." Plans to roll out a controversial program providing identification for all residents regardless of legal status is on hold for the moment.
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According to new Census Bureau projections, ethnic and racial minorities won't be that way for very long. The census calculates that by 2042, Americans who consider themselves a minority including Hispanic, black, and Asian will in combination outnumber non-Hispanic whites. Even earlier, minority children will be the majority by 2023.
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Like the Minutemen, another controversial group who has erected signs at the border between the US and Mexico, PETA has a billboard all cooked up and aimed at the migrating population heading across the border. The PETA placard has a stronger message than "we keep this road clean" — the animal rights superadvocates want immigrants to cross over, and cross meat off their shopping list.
PETA is asking the government to let them rent space on the border fence proclaiming to the new arrivals: "If the Border Patrol Doesn't Get You, the Chicken and Burgers Will — Go Vegan."
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Fraud Fears Leave US Citizenship of Thousands in Doubt In the early 1990s, dozens of midwives were convicted of forging US birth certificates for about 15,000 children born in Mexico as far back as the 1960s. As a result, the US government no longer trusts that anyone in a small town region of Texas delivered by a midwife is an American citizen. In those cases, the government demands additional proof — a demand that has applicants scouring school warehouses and church offices to document their pasts.
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About 1,000 Iowans marched in protest yesterday over working conditions at the same meatpacking plant in Iowa where an immigration raid this Spring that led to the arrest of almost 400 people. The incident has left local residents pleading with their congressmen to stop with the raids. This weekend residents told their representatives that the sweep damaged the small town more than it helped, and tore families apart.
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Yesterday the German government approved a plan to begin testing would-be citizens on German customs and history, as a condition of citizenship. Critics say the questions and language of the multiple choice test are too difficult. It has also caused a stir among Germany's religious communities.
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