Ineligible for Citizenship
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... culture and attain the rights of full citizenship prior to and during World War II. A politics of id... parents who were regarded as aliens ineligible for citizenship. But the prevailing racial prejudi...
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...Subpart I: Ineligible for Citizenship. 40.82 - Alien who departed the U...
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... requires revocation of United States citizenship that was "illegally procured" or "procured by conc... that petitioner would have been found ineligible for a visa as a matter of law if it had been deter...
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Amendment 1, a proposal to delete an obsolete provision in the state Constitution that allows the Legislature to prohibit property ownership by aliens ineligible for citizenship?' Amendment 2, a proposed constitutional amendment banning' same-sex marriage, is the only proposed amendment that came from a citizens' initiative.
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... possession of real property by aliens ineligible for citizenship may be regulated or prohibited by ...
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In this article, I use state-level anti-miscegenation legislation to examine how Asian ethnic groups became categorized within the American racial system in the period between the Civil War and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. I show how the labels used to describe Asian ethnic groups at the state level reflected and were constrained by national-level debates regarding the groups eligible for U.S. citizenship. My main point is that Asian ethnic groups originally were viewed as legally distinct-racially and ethnically, and that members of these groups recognized and used these distinctions to seek social rights and privileges. The construction of "Asian" as a social category resulted primarily from congressional legislation and judicial rulings that linked immigration with natural...
... Ah Yup, an immigrant from China, was ineligible for citizenship:. In speaking of the various class...
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WASHINGTON -- Marylanders today understand that Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney made a horrible decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford, the 1857 Supreme Court ruling that declared blacks ineligible for citizenship. If we could do it all over again, we would probably not erect the sculpted images of Taney that previous generations planted on public ground in Annapolis and Frederick.
But rather than tearing down those pieces of history, as some have suggested, the state ought to build monuments to Marylanders who stood for the freedom that Dred Scott denied. The 1995 installation of a statue of Justice Thurgood Marshall at the state capitol was a good start.
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... at birth who wishes to regain her citizenship under section 324(c) of the Immigration and Nation... for decision, that the applicant is ineligible for resumption of citizenship because of section 3...
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... and granting broad rights of national citizenship), and the Fifteenth Amendment (forbidding racial d..., the "Negro," as an enslaved race, was ineligible to attain United States citizenship, either from a...