Tag: Citizenship

Abdul Mannan just knows a mistake was made somewhere. "We are genuine Indians. We are not foreigners," said Mannan, 50, adding his family has lived in India's northeastern Assam state since the 1930s. Neither can nearly 4 million other people who insist they are Indian but who now must prove their nationality as the politics of citizenship — overlaid with questions of religion, ethnicity and illegal immigration — swirls in a state where such questions have a long and bloody past. "India is for Indians. "Assam is not for illegal Bangladeshis." Today, hundreds of Bengali-speaking Muslims with suspect nationality are already living in a half-dozen detention camps in Assam. Few deny there has been widespread illegal migration into Assam, often by poor Bangladeshis in search of work as farm laborers. While Muslims appear to dominate the 3.9 million people left off the citizenship rolls, they aren't the only people now facing a bureaucratic gauntlet. Even some of those who support the citizenship survey say the migrants are a significant part of the economy.

President Trump’s administration has taken a lot of controversial actions to combat illegal immigration. But, a proposed new move could actually make things harder for legal immigrants. Stephanie Ruhle breaks down what this means for people who have and are…

D.C. District Judge John Bates upheld the ruling that the DACA program, started under the Obama Administration to aid those who were brought to the US illegally as children, must be restarted. Analysis from the 'Special Report' All-Star panel. FOX…

Former Trump adviser Michael Anton argues that birthright citizenship is not a constitutional requirement. #Tucker FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number one…

Tucker: It's surreal to watch Democratic politicians in California encourage foreign nationals to vote in our elections. Our offices won't be far behind, and the trend is growing. The Left rejects the notion that America is even a country. It’s…

Third time's the charm for Fereshteh's 87-year-old father, who applied for citizenship twice before during his 15 years living in the States on a Green Card, his daughter said. (Photo: Nada Hassanein/Democrat) Nasrollah is relieved. As a citizen, he can now travel more easily and visit his kids in Canada and family in Iran. (Photo: Joe Rondone/Democrat) "They have to distinguish the government and people from each other," she said. Svetlana Palamodova Rolston, a 38-year-old native of Russia, also became a citizen Thursday. Rolston has been here 18 years. She moved back to Russia to work at The Biomedical Center in St. Petersburg, where HIV vaccine research is ongoing. "I have spent so much time in the United States and have seen all the different parts... and that has actually influenced my decision," to apply for citizenship, she said. (Photo: Joe Rondone/Democrat) "It's beyond politics," she said. On visits back to Russia, people ask her if she feels tension from others here in the States.

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Tragically, too many lives have been lost over the past years to too many shootings and acts of domestic violence. The nexus of the gun lobby, second amendment rights activists, and a crippled mental health system has effectively blocked action to stop the killing. Any solution in this political environment has to start at the local level, and be reinforced by Executive Action. Effective programs for identifying and monitoring potentially violent young offenders are grounded in community mental health systems and involve community social agencies, the police, and the FBI. As a career military psychiatrist and former Army general, I have learned that a complex system needs a senior commander in charge to build a strategy and coordinate the operations, particularly when the politics are dysfunctional. An empowered Assistant Secretary can design and implement programs to strength community mental health and prevent future tragedies. Nikolas Cruz is a teaching case on violence and mental health, and the failure of our society to care for handicapped and disadvantaged young people like him. Cruz’s problems were out in the open for years. Nor was his adoptive father who had died six years before. The social service agencies, police, and FBI failed to act on Cruz’s threats and the dangers he obviously presented.

Because the attitudes of Texas Republican voters on immigration issues are taking political precedence over the best interests of the state. Texas polling data shows a negative network of attitudes toward both legal and illegal immigrants among many GOP voters. Any Republican leader who might publicly oppose the census order fears angering these voters — and inciting primary challengers more willing to cater to these Republican ideals. The state’s leadership was playing in tune with their political base: In October 2017 UT/TT polling, 88 percent of Republicans supported requiring local law enforcement officials to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, and 69 percent said that officers should always be able to question a person’s immigration status. In the February 2018 UT/Texas Tribune Poll, 62 percent of Republicans expressed the opinion that the United States allows too many people to immigrate here legally, and 49 percent disagreed with the statement that “newcomers from other countries enrich Texas with their hard work and values.” GOP voters’ reservations about the role of immigrants extends to other areas, such as birthright citizenship. But November 2015 UT/TT polling, in the wake of proposals by candidate Trump and other Republicans to repeal birthright citizenship, found that 66 percent of Texas Republicans favored repealing this part of the 14th Amendment. Were immigration competing with other priorities for the attention of Republican voters, there might be potential for state elected officials to redirect voters’ attention toward realistic concerns about defending the flow of federal funds available to the state for social spending, transportation and education. The grounds for the argument hide in plain sight. In the 2016 fiscal year, according to the comptroller’s office, federal funds composed more than a third of state budget revenue at 35.5 percent. Henson is the director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas.