🚨On Trump's way out, expect yet another barrier to immigrants becoming US citizens: @priscialva reports a plan to double the number of questions on the civics test, from 10-->20, & (apparently) make them considerably harder.
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First of all, the civics questions for US citizenship are already pretty hard—see for yourself!
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nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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Second, Congress requires naturalized US citizens to demonstrate "a knowledge & understanding of the fundamentals of the history, & of the principles & form of government, of the United States."
That leaves much discretion to DHS, which it's likely to abuse.
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That leaves much discretion to DHS, which it's likely to abuse.
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Don't expect the Trump admin to provide a reasonable justification for making the civics test harder, or honesty about their core goal to prevent more immigrants from becoming US citizens.
All they see is "fraud or nefarious actions," w/o evidence.
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All they see is "fraud or nefarious actions," w/o evidence.
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Certainly it's natural for questions to change over time—here's a Yiddish/English naturalization study guide my great-grandmother used in 1942!
But having the dead-ender Trump administration in charge of a new civics exam puts me on shpilkes.
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But having the dead-ender Trump administration in charge of a new civics exam puts me on shpilkes.
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