| Submit your comments on this article |
| Home Front: Culture Wars |
| New citizens will face much tougher exam; could you pass? |
| 2006-12-03 |
| What does it mean that the U.S. Constitution is a constitution of limited powers? Nothing, anymore. Name one responsibility that is only for United States citizens. Name one of the writers of the Federalist Papers. If you are an American citizen, you should know the answers. If you intend on becoming a naturalized citizen, you may want to bone up on U.S. history and civics. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office will enlist 5,000 citizenship applicant volunteers in 10 cities, including Tucson, next year to test-drive the questions. The proposed 144 questions will be whittled down for a new citizenship exam. The questions, found at www. uscis.gov, deal more with "concepts of democracy and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship," according to the agency. The pilot questions are several degrees more difficult than the current ones. Not only should immigrants be required to pass some sort of reasonable citizenship test (in English); prospective voters should have to pass the same test in order to register to vote. h/t: FR |
| Posted by:Glenmore |
| #11 Aw heck, Pappy. Years ago the cartoonist Bob Boze Bell did a great illustration of a typical Tucson family: a mullet haired lesbian with a sneer and her two AKC dogs. That also pretty well describes their cultural scene. Tucson even looks democrat. Sorry looking streets full of potholes, most of the city looks run down and stuck in the 1960s, lots of homeless hanging out. Plenty cheap brown snorting heroin up from Messico, marijuana by the boatload. I think landscaping is forbidden. Any gang violence will be between Messicans, most probably illegal or worthless, so nobody will give two hoots. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-12-03 23:04 |
| #10 Gang crime is rising rapidly in Tucson - a fact mentioned in today's paper - you won't see Ernesto agressively comment on that issue. No - until the cultural elite in Tucson start getting dragged out of their luxury cars and shot... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2006-12-03 21:53 |
| #9 The answers are actually posted directly on the CIS website. |
| Posted by: exJAG 2006-12-03 17:49 |
| #8 borgboy: I had a good laugh at the gang war article in the Tucson newspaper. Trying to stimulate public fear by an increase in dead gang bangers from like 8 to 14 in a year, average, is pretty weak. Hell, up in Phoenix, they had like 35 bodies recovered in a year from a stretch of desert west of the city, and their news media did everything they could *not* to make an issue of it. Bad for tourism and all. Put it in the "Rooooaaaaddd Raaaaaagggge!" department. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-12-03 17:11 |
| #7 Word, ed. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-12-03 14:56 |
| #6 The answers can be bought in the parking lot of the local Western Union office. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-12-03 14:54 |
| #5 The pilot questions are several degrees more difficult than the current ones. Well, yeah...they'll have to be answered in English... |
| Posted by: Swamp Blondie 2006-12-03 14:17 |
| #4 Portillo is an apologist for the transnational / colonization movement in southern Arizona. He writes for the local daily which is heavily pc. Gang crime is rising rapidly in Tucson - a fact mentioned in today's paper - you won't see Ernesto agressively comment on that issue. Of course there is no tie in between rising gang crimewaves and illegal immigration... |
| Posted by: borgboy 2006-12-03 13:00 |
| #3 While a few history lessons are useful, I can think of a whole slew of important concepts that immigrants should be tested for: 1) All people are equal under the law and all people have protection by the law. This means men, women, children, people of different races and from origins in different nations, people of other religions or no religion at all, homosexuals, etc. 2) The laws written by men are totally dominant over the laws and practices of any culture or religion. This means that while people may choose to obey religious laws *also*, they may not force or carry out those laws against anyone, even members of their own religion, who do not wholeheartedly and proactively agree to it. If there is a conflict between secular and religious law, secular law must be obeyed. 3) Slavery is forbidden. All labor must be freely offered and paid for according to US legal rules. Any slave entering the US is instantly free from any obligation to their owner. Children are only permitted to work at all under strict rules. People cannot be detained without their permission. 4) Polygamy is forbidden. Performing any variety of surgery without a license is forbidden. Forced marriage and dowry is forbidden. Honor killing is strictly forbidden. Child and spouse abuse is forbidden. 5) All children must be schooled. All vehicles and drivers must be licensed and insured. All males between 18-? must be registered for military draft. Statements of payment for employment and all other income must be submitted annually as part of our national tax, the "income tax". Most individual States also require an annual income tax payment, supported by these documents. 6) All immigrants are strongly encouraged to learn to read and write the English language, as it is almost essential to becoming self-sufficient and economically successful. All immigrants are strongly encouraged to integrate into the culture of the US as soon as possible, to interact with and respect other citizens beyond your local community. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-12-03 11:05 |
| #2 Why ? I know what I'm doing. I saw on the news that Senator Allen said 'macaca' so I voted against him. |
| Posted by: Joe Union 2006-12-03 10:59 |
| #1 I like the last comment on requiring the test to be eligable to vote. |
| Posted by: Crinese Glineger7291 2006-12-03 10:53 |