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Citizen Illegal: Understanding the Complexities of Undocumented Immigration
The term "citizen illegal" is inherently contradictory. Citizenship, by definition, implies legal belonging within a nation-state. However, the phrase often emerges in discussions surrounding undocumented immigrants, individuals residing in a country without the required legal documentation. This post delves into the complexities surrounding this paradoxical term, exploring the legal realities, the human impact, and the ongoing debate surrounding immigration policies worldwide. We'll unpack the legal definitions, address common misconceptions, and examine the broader societal implications of undocumented immigration.
H2: Defining "Citizen Illegal": A Contradiction in Terms?
The term itself is a misnomer. A citizen, by definition, is a legal member of a nation. Someone cannot simultaneously be a legal citizen and "illegal." The phrase likely arises from the common but inaccurate shorthand used to describe individuals who lack legal immigration status, often referred to as undocumented immigrants, illegal aliens, or unauthorized immigrants. This imprecise language can contribute to misunderstandings and perpetuate harmful stereotypes. It's crucial to use precise terminology to avoid ambiguity and foster a more nuanced understanding of this sensitive topic.
H2: The Legal Status of Undocumented Immigrants
Undocumented immigrants are individuals residing in a country without the necessary legal permission. Their status varies depending on the specific country's immigration laws and their individual circumstances. They may have entered the country illegally, overstayed a visa, or have their legal residency revoked. It's important to note that their lack of legal documentation doesn't automatically equate to criminal activity. While some undocumented immigrants may have committed crimes related to their immigration status, many are simply individuals seeking better opportunities or fleeing persecution in their home countries.
H3: Consequences of Undocumented Status
The consequences of being undocumented can be severe. Undocumented immigrants often face limited access to essential services such as healthcare, education, and employment. They live in constant fear of deportation and may be subjected to discriminatory practices. Furthermore, their precarious legal status can make them vulnerable to exploitation and abuse.
H2: The Human Cost of Undocumented Immigration
Beyond the legal ramifications, the human cost of undocumented immigration is significant. Families are separated, children are denied access to education, and individuals are forced to live in the shadows, deprived of basic rights and opportunities. The emotional toll on individuals and families navigating this challenging reality is immense. Stories of resilience and perseverance abound, yet the systemic challenges remain a significant obstacle.
H3: Challenges Faced by Undocumented Immigrants
Undocumented immigrants face numerous challenges, including language barriers, cultural adjustment difficulties, limited access to resources, and the constant threat of deportation. These challenges are compounded by systemic barriers and widespread discrimination. Many struggle to find stable employment, often working in low-wage jobs with minimal protection under labor laws.
H2: The Ongoing Debate Surrounding Immigration Policies
The issue of undocumented immigration is a subject of intense political and social debate worldwide. Differing perspectives exist regarding the enforcement of immigration laws, pathways to citizenship, and the overall impact of immigration on national economies and societies. These debates often involve complex considerations of humanitarian concerns, economic implications, and national security.
H3: Finding Common Ground
Finding common ground on this complex issue requires open dialogue, empathy, and a willingness to understand different perspectives. Solutions need to be comprehensive and address the root causes of undocumented immigration, while also respecting the rule of law and ensuring the well-being of all citizens.
H2: The Path Forward: Towards a More Humane and Effective System
Addressing the issue of undocumented immigration requires a multifaceted approach. This includes strengthening border security, establishing clear pathways to legal immigration, and reforming existing immigration systems to be more efficient and humane. Investing in resources to support integration and address the root causes of migration is also crucial.
Conclusion:
The term "citizen illegal" is inaccurate and misleading. Understanding the complexities of undocumented immigration requires moving beyond simplistic labels and engaging in a nuanced discussion about the legal, human, and societal implications. Finding a path forward requires compassionate and effective solutions that balance the rule of law with the need for a more just and humane immigration system.
FAQs:
1. What is the difference between an undocumented immigrant and an illegal alien? While often used interchangeably, "undocumented immigrant" is generally preferred as it is more neutral and avoids the potentially inflammatory connotations of "illegal alien." Both terms refer to individuals residing in a country without the proper legal documentation.
2. Can undocumented immigrants access healthcare? Access to healthcare for undocumented immigrants varies greatly by country and region. Many countries offer limited or emergency healthcare, but access is often restricted and can be expensive.
3. Are undocumented immigrants eligible for social security benefits? Generally, no. Eligibility for social security benefits typically requires legal residency and documented work history.
4. What are the legal consequences of employing an undocumented immigrant? The legal consequences of employing undocumented workers vary by jurisdiction, but generally include fines and potential criminal charges.
5. What are some of the pathways to legal status for undocumented immigrants? Pathways to legal status vary by country and may include applying for asylum, obtaining a work visa, or participating in specific immigration programs. These often involve complex processes and requirements.
| citizen illegal: Citizen Illegal José Olivarez, 2018-09-04 “Olivarez steps into the ‘inbetween’ standing between Mexico and America in these compelling, emotional poems. Written with humor and sincerity” (Newsweek). Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek and NPR. In this “devastating debut” (Publishers Weekly), poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America. He paints vivid portraits of good kids, bad kids, families clinging to hope, life after the steel mills, gentrifying barrios, and everything in between. Drawing on the rich traditions of Latinx and Chicago writers like Sandra Cisneros and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olivarez creates a home out of life in the in-between. Combining wry humor with potent emotional force, Olivarez takes on complex issues of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and immigration using an everyday language that invites the reader in, with a unique voice that makes him a poet to watch. “The son of Mexican immigrants, Olivarez celebrates his Mexican-American identity and examines how those two sides conflict in a striking collection of poems.” —USA Today |
| citizen illegal: The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4 Felicia Chavez, José Olivarez, Willie Perdomo, 2020-04-07 In the dynamic tradition of the BreakBeat Poets anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT celebrates the embodied narratives of Latinidad. Poets speak from an array of nationalities, genders, sexualities, races, and writing styles, staking a claim to our cultural and civic space. Like Hip-Hop, we honor what was, what is, and what's next. |
| citizen illegal: Impossible Subjects Mae M. Ngai, 2014-04-27 This book traces the origins of the illegal alien in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy—a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century. Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime of restriction that commenced in the 1920s—its statutory architecture, judicial genealogies, administrative enforcement, differential treatment of European and non-European migrants, and long-term effects. She shows that immigration restriction, particularly national-origin and numerical quotas, remapped America both by creating new categories of racial difference and by emphasizing as never before the nation's contiguous land borders and their patrol. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions. |
| citizen illegal: 'Illegal' Traveller S. Khosravi, 2010-04-14 Based on fieldwork among undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers Illegal Traveller offers a narrative of the polysemic nature of borders, border politics, and rituals and performances of border-crossing. Interjecting personal experiences into ethnographic writing it is 'a form of self-narrative that places the self within a social context'. |
| citizen illegal: The Illegal Lawrence Hill, 2015-09-08 Keita Ali is on the run. Like every boy on the mountainous island of Zantoroland, running is all Keita’s ever wanted to do. In one of the poorest nations in the world, running means respect. Running means riches—until Keita is targeted for his father’s outspoken political views and discovers he must run for his family’s survival. He signs on with notorious marathon agent Anton Hamm, but when Keita fails to place among the top finishers in his first race, he escapes into Freedom State—a wealthy island nation that has elected a government bent on deporting the refugees living within its borders in the community of AfricTown. Keita can stay safe only if he keeps moving and eludes Hamm and the officials who would deport him to his own country, where he would face almost certain death. This is the new underground: a place where tens of thousands of people deemed to be “illegal” live below the radar of the police and government officials. As Keita surfaces from time to time to earn cash prizes by running local road races, he has to assess whether the people he meets are friends or enemies: John Falconer, a gifted student struggling to escape the limits of his AfricTown upbringing; Ivernia Beech, a spirited old woman at risk of being forced into an assisted living facility; Rocco Calder, a recreational marathoner and the immigration minister; Lula DiStefano, self-declared queen of AfricTown and madam of the community’s infamous brothel; and Viola Hill, a reporter who is investigating the lengths to which her government will go to stop illegal immigration. Keita’s very existence in Freedom State is illegal. As he trains in secret, eluding capture, the stakes keep getting higher. Soon, he is running not only for his life, but for his sister’s life, too. Fast moving and compelling, The Illegal casts a satirical eye on people who have turned their backs on undocumented refugees struggling to survive in a nation that does not want them. Hill’s depiction of life on the borderlands of society urges us to consider the plight of the unseen and the forgotten who live among us. |
| citizen illegal: Illegal Elizabeth F. Cohen, 2020-01-28 A political scientist explains how the American immigration system ran off the rails -- and proposes a bold plan for reform Under the Trump administration, US immigration agencies terrorize the undocumented, target people who are here legally, and even threaten the constitutional rights of American citizens. How did we get to this point? In Illegal, Elizabeth F. Cohen reveals that our current crisis has roots in early twentieth century white nationalist politics, which began to reemerge in the 1980s. Since then, ICE and CBP have acquired bigger budgets and more power than any other law enforcement agency. Now, Trump has unleashed them. If we want to reverse the rising tide of abuse, Cohen argues that we must act quickly to rein in the powers of the current immigration regime and revive saner approaches based on existing law. Going beyond the headlines, Illegal makes clear that if we don't act now all of us, citizen and not, are at risk. |
| citizen illegal: Teach Living Poets Lindsay Illich, Melissa Alter Smith, 2021 Teach Living Poets opens up the flourishing world of contemporary poetry to secondary teachers, giving advice on reading contemporary poetry, discovering new poets, and inviting living poets into the classroom, as well as sharing sample lessons, writing prompts, and ways to become an engaged member of a professional learning community. The #TeachLivingPoets approach, which has grown out of the vibrant movement and community founded by high school teacher Melissa Alter Smith and been codeveloped with poet and scholar Lindsay Illich, offers rich opportunities for students to improve critical reading and writing, opportunities for self-expression and social-emotional learning, and, perhaps the most desirable outcome, the opportunity to fall in love with language and discover (or renew) their love of reading. The many poems included in Teach Living Poets are representative of the diverse poets writing today. |
| citizen illegal: Insurgent Citizenship James Holston, 2021-06-08 Insurgent citizenships have arisen in cities around the world. This book examines the insurgence of democratic citizenship in the urban peripheries of São Paulo, Brazil, its entanglement with entrenched systems of inequality, and its contradiction in violence. James Holston argues that for two centuries Brazilians have practiced a type of citizenship all too common among nation-states--one that is universally inclusive in national membership and massively inegalitarian in distributing rights and in its legalization of social differences. But since the 1970s, he shows, residents of Brazil's urban peripheries have formulated a new citizenship that is destabilizing the old. Their mobilizations have developed not primarily through struggles of labor but through those of the city--particularly illegal residence, house building, and land conflict. Yet precisely as Brazilians democratized urban space and achieved political democracy, violence, injustice, and impunity increased dramatically. Based on comparative, ethnographic, and historical research, Insurgent Citizenship reveals why the insurgent and the entrenched remain dangerously conjoined as new kinds of citizens expand democracy even as new forms of violence and exclusion erode it. Rather than view this paradox as evidence of democratic failure and urban chaos, Insurgent Citizenship argues that contradictory realizations of citizenship characterize all democracies--emerging and established. Focusing on processes of city- and citizen-making now prevalent globally, it develops new approaches for understanding the contemporary course of democratic citizenship in societies of vastly different cultures and histories. |
| citizen illegal: No One is Illegal (Updated Edition) Justin Akers Chacón, Mike Davis, 2018-05-09 Countering the chorus of anti-immigrant voices that have grown increasingly loud in the current political moment, No One is Illegal exposes the racism of anti-immigration vigilantes and puts a human face on the immigrants who risk their lives to cross the border to work in the United States. This second edition has a new introduction to frame the analysis of the struggle for immigrant rights and the roots of the backlash. Justin Akers Chacón is the author of the forthcoming Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican American Working Class. Mike Davis is the author many books, including The Ecology of Fear and Planet of Slums. |
| citizen illegal: Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization Lee Trepanier, Khalil M. Habib, 2011-09-30 Thanks to advances in international communication and travel, it has never been easier to connect with the rest of the world. As philosophers debate the consequences of globalization, cosmopolitanism promises to create a stronger global community. Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization examines this philosophy from numerous perspectives to offer a comprehensive evaluation of its theory and practice. Bringing together the works of political scientists, philosophers, historians, and economists, the work applies an interdisciplinary approach to the study of cosmopolitanism that illuminates its long and varied history. This diverse framework provides a thoughtful analysis of the claims of cosmopolitanism and introduces many overlooked theorists and ideas. This volume is a timely addition to sociopolitical theory, exploring the philosophical consequences of cosmopolitanism in today's global interactions. |
| citizen illegal: Immigrants Raising Citizens Hirokazu Yoshikawa, 2011-03-11 An in-depth look at the challenges undocumented immigrants face as they raise children in the U.S. There are now nearly four million children born in the United States who have undocumented immigrant parents. In the current debates around immigration reform, policymakers often view immigrants as an economic or labor market problem to be solved, but the issue has a very real human dimension. Immigrant parents without legal status are raising their citizen children under stressful work and financial conditions, with the constant threat of discovery and deportation that may narrow social contacts and limit participation in public programs that might benefit their children. Immigrants Raising Citizens offers a compelling description of the everyday experiences of these parents, their very young children, and the consequences these experiences have on their children's development. Immigrants Raising Citizens challenges conventional wisdom about undocumented immigrants, viewing them not as lawbreakers or victims, but as the parents of citizens whose adult productivity will be essential to the nation's future. The book's findings are based on data from a three-year study of 380 infants from Dominican, Mexican, Chinese, and African American families, which included in-depth interviews, in-home child assessments, and parent surveys. The book shows that undocumented parents share three sets of experiences that distinguish them from legal-status parents and may adversely influence their children's development: avoidance of programs and authorities, isolated social networks, and poor work conditions. Fearing deportation, undocumented parents often avoid accessing valuable resources that could help their children's development—such as access to public programs and agencies providing child care and food subsidies. At the same time, many of these parents are forced to interact with illegal entities such as smugglers or loan sharks out of financial necessity. Undocumented immigrants also tend to have fewer reliable social ties to assist with child care or share information on child-rearing. Compared to legal-status parents, undocumented parents experience significantly more exploitive work conditions, including long hours, inadequate pay and raises, few job benefits, and limited autonomy in job duties. These conditions can result in ongoing parental stress, economic hardship, and avoidance of center-based child care—which is directly correlated with early skill development in children. The result is poorly developed cognitive skills, recognizable in children as young as two years old, which can negatively impact their future school performance and, eventually, their job prospects. Immigrants Raising Citizens has important implications for immigration policy, labor law enforcement, and the structure of community services for immigrant families. In addition to low income and educational levels, undocumented parents experience hardships due to their status that have potentially lifelong consequences for their children. With nothing less than the future contributions of these children at stake, the book presents a rigorous and sobering argument that the price for ignoring this reality may be too high to pay. |
| citizen illegal: Every Day We Get More Illegal Juan Felipe Herrera, 2020-09-22 Voted a Best Poetry Book of the Year by Library Journal Included in Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Poetry Books of the Year One of LitHub's most Anticipated Books of the Year! A State of the Union from the nation’s first Latino Poet Laureate. Trenchant, compassionate, and filled with hope. Many poets since the 1960s have dreamed of a new hybrid art, part oral, part written, part English, part something else: an art grounded in ethnic identity, fueled by collective pride, yet irreducibly individual too. Many poets have tried to create such an art: Herrera is one of the first to succeed.—New York Times Herrera has the unusual capacity to write convincing political poems that are as personally felt as poems can be.—NPR Juan Felipe Herrera's magnificent new poems in Every Day We Get More Illegal testify to the deepest parts of the American dream—the streets and parking lots, the stores and restaurants and futures that belong to all—from the times when hope was bright, more like an intimate song than any anthem stirring the blood.—Naomi Shihab Nye, The New York Times Magazine From Basho to Mandela, Every Day We Get More Illegal takes us on an international tour for a lesson in the history of resistance from a poet who declares, 'I had to learn . . . to take care of myself . . . the courage to listen to my self.' You hold in your hands evidence of who we really are.—Jericho Brown, author of The Tradition These poems talk directly to America, to migrant people, and to working people. Herrera has created a chorus to remind us we are alive and beautiful and powerful.—José Olivarez, Author of Citizen Illegal The poet comes to his country with a book of songs, and asks: America, are you listening? We better listen. There is wisdom in this book, there is a choral voice that teaches us 'to gain, pebble by pebble, seashell by seashell, the courage.' The courage to find more grace, to find flames.—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic In this collection of poems, written during and immediately after two years on the road as United States Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera reports back on his travels through contemporary America. Poems written in the heat of witness, and later, in quiet moments of reflection, coalesce into an urgent, trenchant, and yet hope-filled portrait. The struggle and pain of those pushed to the edges, the shootings and assaults and injustices of our streets, the lethal border game that separates and divides, and then: a shift of register, a leap for peace and a view onto the possibility of unity. Every Day We Get More Illegal is a jolt to the conscience—filled with the multiple powers of the many voices and many textures of every day in America. Former Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera should also be Laureate of our Millennium—a messenger who nimbly traverses the transcendental liminalities of the United States . . .—Carmen Gimenez Smith, author of Be Recorder |
| citizen illegal: Undocumented Aviva Chomsky, 2014-05-13 A longtime immigration activist explores what it means to be an undocumented American—revealing the ever-shifting nature of status in the U.S.—in this “impassioned and well-reported case for change (New York Times) In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how “illegality” and “undocumentedness” are concepts that were created to exclude and exploit. With a focus on US policy, she probes how people, especially Mexican and Central Americans, have been assigned this status—and to what ends. Blending history with human drama, Chomsky explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic, and historical context. The result is a powerful testament of the complex, contradictory, and ever-shifting nature of status in America. |
| citizen illegal: Illegal Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin, 2018-08-07 A powerfully moving, award-winning graphic novel that explores the current plight of undocumented immigrants from New York Times bestselling author Eoin Colfer and the team behind the Artemis Fowl graphic novels. How can a human being be illegal for simply existing? Ebo is alone. His brother, Kwame, has disappeared, and Ebo knows it can only be to attempt the hazardous journey to Europe, and a better life—the same journey their sister set out on months ago. But Ebo refuses to be left behind in Ghana. He sets out after Kwame and joins him on the quest to reach Europe. Ebo's epic journey takes him across the Sahara Desert to the dangerous streets of Tripoli, and finally out to the merciless sea. But with every step he holds on to his hope for a new life, and a reunion with his family. An achingly poignant tale for learning about immigration and current global issues. This book is fiction, but it is based on a very real and terrible journey. There are young people who have lived this, and it is a story those young people want us to know about. 2019 Excellence in Graphic Literature Award Winner A New York Public Library Best Book of 2018 A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2018 An Amazon Best Book of 2018 A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Graphic Novel of 2018 An American Library Association Notable Book for 2019 2019 YALSA Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2019 CBC Notable Social Studies Book A Junior Library Guild Selection |
| citizen illegal: Dear America Jose Antonio Vargas, 2018-09-18 THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER “This riveting, courageous memoir ought to be mandatory reading for every American.” —Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow “l cried reading this book, realizing more fully what my parents endured.” —Amy Tan, New York Times bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and Where the Past Begins “This book couldn’t be more timely and more necessary.” —Dave Eggers, New York Times bestselling author of What Is the What and The Monk of Mokha Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “the most famous undocumented immigrant in America,” tackles one of the defining issues of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms. “This is not a book about the politics of immigration. This book––at its core––is not about immigration at all. This book is about homelessness, not in a traditional sense, but in the unsettled, unmoored psychological state that undocumented immigrants like myself find ourselves in. This book is about lying and being forced to lie to get by; about passing as an American and as a contributing citizen; about families, keeping them together, and having to make new ones when you can’t. This book is about constantly hiding from the government and, in the process, hiding from ourselves. This book is about what it means to not have a home. After 25 years of living illegally in a country that does not consider me one of its own, this book is the closest thing I have to freedom.” —Jose Antonio Vargas, from Dear America |
| citizen illegal: Illegal Migration and Gender in a Global and Historical Perspective Marlou Schrover, 2008 This incisive study combines the two subjects and views the migration scholarship through the lens of the gender perspective. |
| citizen illegal: Undocumented Migration Roberto G. Gonzales, Nando Sigona, Martha C. Franco, Anna Papoutsi, 2019-10-14 Undocumented migration is a global and yet elusive phenomenon. Despite contemporary efforts to patrol national borders and mass deportation programs, it remains firmly placed at the top of the political agenda in many countries where it receives hostile media coverage and generates fierce debate. However, as this much-needed book makes clear, unauthorized movement should not be confused or crudely assimilated with the social reality of growing numbers of large, settled populations lacking full citizenship and experiencing precarious lives. From the journeys migrants take to the lives they seek on arrival and beyond, Undocumented Migration provides a comparative view of how this phenomenon plays out, looking in particular at the United States and Europe. Drawing on their extensive expertise, the authors breathe life into the various issues and debates surrounding migration, including the experiences and voices of migrants themselves, to offer a critical analysis of a hidden and too often misrepresented population. |
| citizen illegal: Acts of Citizenship Engin F. Isin, Greg M. Nielsen, 2013-04-04 This book introduces the concept of 'act of citizenship' and in doing so, re-orients the study of what it means to be a citizen. Isin and Nielsen show that an 'act of citizenship' is the event through which subjects constitute themselves as citizens. They claim that such an act involves both responsibility and answerability, but is ultimately irreducible to either. This study of citizenship is truly interdisciplinary, drawing not only on new developments in politics, sociology, geography and anthropology, but also on psychoanalysis, philosophy and history. Ranging from Antigone and Socrates in the ancient world to checkpoints, euthanasia and flash mobs in the modern one, the 'acts' and chapters here build up a dynamic and wide-ranging picture. Acts of Citizenship provides important new insights for all those concerned with the relationship between individuals, groups and polities. |
| citizen illegal: Constructing Immigrant 'Illegality' Cecilia Menjívar, Daniel Kanstroom, 2014 This collection examines how immigration law shapes immigrant illegality, the concept of immigrant illegality, and how its power is wielded and resisted. |
| citizen illegal: Black Queer Hoe Britteney Black Rose Kapri, 2018-10-02 From an award-winning and “stunningly talented” writer, reflections on the line between sexual freedom and sexual exploitation (Samantha Irby, New York Times–bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life). Women’s sexuality is often used as a weapon against them. In this refreshing, unapologetic debut, award-winning performance poet and playwright Britteney Black Rose Kapri lends her unmistakable voice to fraught questions of identity, sexuality, reclamation, and power in a world that refuses black queer women permission to define their own lives and boundaries. Black Queer Hoe is a powerful intervention into important and ongoing conversations. “In a debut crackling with energy, honesty, and wit, Kapri moves to reclaim elements of language surrounding women’s sexuality, especially that of black women . . . Kapri assails the ways social norms are routinely used to blame girls and women for the moral failures of boys and men. Embracing the intimacy of a confessional and the sting of a viral tweet, Kapri unabashedly celebrates the various facets of her self and refuses to serve as anyone’s martyr.” —Publishers Weekly |
| citizen illegal: Citizen Militia Rear Admiral Joseph H. Miller, Mrs. Cathy Miller R.N. CNRN, 2019-02-28 History is filled with wars. We dream the victories and defeats, great and small, and note how they have shaped our world. Wars and social movements have made our civilization as we know it. Man’s religion and past wars gives us an understanding of the present. In 1075, a militia loyal to the crown was used against the Norman rebellion. A militia in 1285, and later a Law of Trusts, reorganized the militia. In 1471, with the aid of the militia, towns in Sweden returned to reforms. The University of Uppsala was founded (1477) and printing was introduced. The civic humanist ideal of the militia was spread through Europe by the writings of Niccolò Machiavelli. The militiaman in times of crisis left his civilian duties and became a soldier. When the emergency was over, he returned to his civilian status. Militias continued in England, Italy, Germany, and the United States through the Middle Ages. The first US militia was in Boston. Militias soon followed in the Colonies. Militias were valuable in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, Mexican War, and both sides of the Civil War. There was further growth into the 1900’s and on into the Present. “Thou art also victory and law When empty terrors overawe.” (Wordsworth) |
| citizen illegal: The BreakBeat Poets Kevin Coval, Quraysh Lansana, Nate Marshall, 2015-04-07 A first-of-its-kind anthology of hip-hop poetica written for and by the people. |
| citizen illegal: United States Code United States, 2013 The United States Code is the official codification of the general and permanent laws of the United States of America. The Code was first published in 1926, and a new edition of the code has been published every six years since 1934. The 2012 edition of the Code incorporates laws enacted through the One Hundred Twelfth Congress, Second Session, the last of which was signed by the President on January 15, 2013. It does not include laws of the One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, First Session, enacted between January 2, 2013, the date it convened, and January 15, 2013. By statutory authority this edition may be cited U.S.C. 2012 ed. As adopted in 1926, the Code established prima facie the general and permanent laws of the United States. The underlying statutes reprinted in the Code remained in effect and controlled over the Code in case of any discrepancy. In 1947, Congress began enacting individual titles of the Code into positive law. When a title is enacted into positive law, the underlying statutes are repealed and the title then becomes legal evidence of the law. Currently, 26 of the 51 titles in the Code have been so enacted. These are identified in the table of titles near the beginning of each volume. The Law Revision Counsel of the House of Representatives continues to prepare legislation pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 285b to enact the remainder of the Code, on a title-by-title basis, into positive law. The 2012 edition of the Code was prepared and published under the supervision of Ralph V. Seep, Law Revision Counsel. Grateful acknowledgment is made of the contributions by all who helped in this work, particularly the staffs of the Office of the Law Revision Counsel and the Government Printing Office--Preface. |
| citizen illegal: Producing and Negotiating Non-citizenship Luin Goldring, Patricia Landolt, 2013-01-01 Most examinations of non-citizens in Canada focus on immigrants, people who are citizens-in-waiting, or specific categories of temporary, vulnerable workers. In contrast,Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship considers a range of people whose pathway to citizenship is uncertain or non-existent. This includes migrant workers, students, refugee claimants, and people with expired permits, all of whom have limited formal rights to employment, housing, education, and health services. The contributors to this volume present theoretically informed empirical studies of the regulatory, institutional, discursive, and practical terms under which precarious-status non-citizens those without permanent residence enter and remain in Canada. They consider the historical and contemporary production of non-citizen precarious status and migrant illegality in Canada, as well as everyday experiences of precarious status among various social groups including youth, denied refugee claimants, and agricultural workers. This timely volume contributes to conceptualizing multiple forms of precarious status non-citizenship as connected through policy and the practices of migrants and the institutional actors they encounter. |
| citizen illegal: Becoming a Citizen Irene Bloemraad, 2006-10-03 Becoming a Citizen is a terrific book. Important, innovative, well argued, theoretically significant, and empirically grounded. It will be the definitive work in the field for years to come.—Frank D. Bean, Co-Director, Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy This book is in three ways innovative. First, it avoids the domestic navel-gazing of U.S .immigration studies, through an obvious yet ingenious comparison with Canada. Second, it shows that official multiculturalism and common citizenship may very well go together, revealing Canada, and not the United States, as leader in successful immigrant integration. Thirdly, the book provides a compelling picture of how the state matters in making immigrants citizens. An outstanding contribution to the migration and citizenship literature!—Christian Joppke, American University of Paris |
| citizen illegal: No One Is Illegal Justin Akers Chacn, Mike Davis, 2017-01-15 No One Is Illegal debunks the leading ideas behind the often-violent right-wing backlash against immigrants. |
| citizen illegal: Offshore Citizens Noora Lori, 2019-08-22 This study of citizenship and migration policies in the Gulf shows how temporary residency can become a permanent citizenship status. |
| citizen illegal: Electric Arches Eve L. Ewing, 2017-08-21 Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose. Blending stark realism with the fantastical, Ewing takes us from the streets of Chicago to an alien arrival in an unspecified future, deftly navigating boundaries of space, time, and reality with delight and flexibility. |
| citizen illegal: The Dying Citizen Victor Davis Hanson, 2021-10-05 The New York Times bestselling author of The Case for Trump explains the decline and fall of the once cherished idea of American citizenship. Human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects, and tribes. Yet the concept of the “citizen” is historically rare—and was among America’s most valued ideals for over two centuries. But without shock treatment, warns historian Victor Davis Hanson, American citizenship as we have known it may soon vanish. In The Dying Citizen, Hanson outlines the historical forces that led to this crisis. The evisceration of the middle class over the last fifty years has made many Americans dependent on the federal government. Open borders have undermined the idea of allegiance to a particular place. Identity politics have eradicated our collective civic sense of self. And a top-heavy administrative state has endangered personal liberty, along with formal efforts to weaken the Constitution. As in the revolutionary years of 1848, 1917, and 1968, 2020 ripped away our complacency about the future. But in the aftermath, we as Americans can rebuild and recover what we have lost. The choice is ours. |
| citizen illegal: Citizens enforcing the law Astrid Bosch, 2013-11-12 In the netherlands, the right of citizens to arrest the suspects of crime is the subject of debate. At stake is whether citizens engaging in law enforcement should be punished for taking the law into their own hands. In the political sphere, it is argued that by enforcing the law, citizens are making a contribution to public safety in cases in which the state cannot guarantee adequate protection. In the legal sphere, however, it is argued that this could open the gates for ‘eigenrichting’. In this context, Astrid Bosch raises the following questions: Have the legal norms constraining citizens' right to enforce the law become outdated? Is there, thus, a gap between the current legal and social opinions regarding citizen’s arrest? Would bridging this gap, by broadening the legal space for citizen’s arrest, endanger the rule of law? |
| citizen illegal: Congressional Record United States. Congress, 1968 |
| citizen illegal: Citizenship Without Consent Peter H. Schuck, Rogers M. Smith, 1985 |
| citizen illegal: Citizenship Reform Act of 1997; and Voter Eligibility Verification Act United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, 1997 |
| citizen illegal: Citizens Without Frontiers Engin F. Isin, 2012-11-02 States define who their citizens are and exert control over their life and movements. But how does such power persist in a global world where people, ideas, and products constantly cross the borders of what the states see as their sovereign territory? This groundbreaking work sets to examine and interprets such challenges to offer a new way of thinking about citizenship. Abandoning the sovereignty principle, it develops a new image of citizenship using the connectedness principle. To do so, it interprets acts of citizenship by following activist citizens across the world through case studies, from Wikileaks and the Gaza flotilla to China's virtual world and Darfur. Written by a leader in the field, this accessible and original work imagines citizens without frontiers as a politics without community and belonging, inclusion without exclusion, where the frontier becomes a form of otherness that citizens erase or create. This unique work brings forth a new and creative way to approach citizenship beyond boundaries that will appeal to anyone studying citizenship, social movements, and migration. |
| citizen illegal: Citizen Claudia Rankine, 2014-10-07 * Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry * * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award * ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Slate, Time Out New York, Vulture, Refinery 29, and many more . . . A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV-everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named post-race society. |
| citizen illegal: Hearing on "you Don't Need Papers to Vote?" Non-citizen Voting and ID Requirements in U.S. Elections United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration, 2006 |
| citizen illegal: The Cosmopolites Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, 2015 The cosmopolites are literally citizens of the world, from the Greek word kosmos, meaning world, and polites, or citizen. Garry Davis, aka World Citizen No. 1, and creator of the World Passport, was a former Broadway actor and World War II bomber pilot who renounced his American citizenship in 1948 as a form of protest against nationalism, sovereign borders, and war. Today there are cosmopolites of all stripes, rich or poor, intentional or unwitting, from 1-percenters who own five passports thanks to tax-havens to theBidoon, the stateless people of countries like the United Arab Emirates. Journalist Atossa Abrahamian, herself a cosmopolite, travels around the globe to meet the people who have come to embody an increasingly fluid, borderless world. Along the way you are introduced to a colorful cast of characters, including passport-burning atheist hackers, the new Knights of Malta, California libertarian seasteaders, who are residents of floating city-states,Bidoons, who have been forced to be citizens of the island nation Comoros, entrepreneurs in the business of buying and selling passports, cosmopolites who live on a luxury cruise ship calledThe World, and shady businessmen with ties to Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad. |
| citizen illegal: Mexifornia Victor Davis Hanson, 2004 This book is part history, part political analysis and part memoir. It is an intensely personal book about what has changed in California over the last quarter century. |
| citizen illegal: Criminology Tony Murphy, 2022-11-23 Criminology is a contemporary, applied, and critical criminology textbook that demonstrates the interdisciplinary nature of criminology, and the links between criminological enquiry and wider social and global issues and processes. Concise, focused and engaging, this second edition masterfully conveys the key issues and perspectives within criminology with ease, and it is accompanied by a range of features to support and test student learning in each chapter. Tony Murphy′s accessible writing style and valuable expertise enables students to connect with core and emergent topics and themes within the field. This fully updated new edition includes: · A brand new chapter on social harm / beyond criminology (inclusive of social murder, structural violence, social protest and its governance) · More social media focus · Topical examples e.g., material on feminicide in relation to counting crime, the creation of new offences in relation to Covid and how this relates to the various definitions of crime, the Afghanistan debacle and more. This is an essential introductory text that provides the foundation needed for studies in criminology. Tony Murphy is a Staff Tutor in Criminology at the Open University. |
| citizen illegal: A People's History of Chicago Kevin Coval, 2017-03-28 Named Best Chicago Poet by The Chicago Reader, Kevin Coval channels Howard Zinn to celebrate the Windy City's hidden history. |
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Under South Carolina’s Illegal Immigration Reform Act, law enforcement has to make reasonable efforts to find out the legal status of every non-U.S. citizen they arrest. Two programs allow law enforcement to do this after someone is arrested. One program allows Sheriff’s offices to enter into agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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between Illegal Immigrants & Crime - Arizona State University
citizen arrestees had not attended high school, 9.5 percent had received some high school education, and 63.9 percent had graduated from high school or completed a GED. What does the illegal alien arrestee population look like? Exhibit 4: Demographic Characteristics by Status (N = 1570) Illegal Alien U.S. Citizen % N % N Gender* Male 95.8 136 ...
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Citizen and Non-Citizen Eligibility for Health Insurance Coverage in New York State Included in this Documentation Guide are citizenship and immigration documents that can establish an individual’s immigration or citizenship status when applying for public health insurance coverage. Immigrant Eligibility for Public Health Insurance
Family-Based Adjustment of Status Options | December 2018
Dec 21, 2018 · individuals who have been abused by a U.S. citizen (“USC”) or lawful permanent resident (“LPR”) spouse, parent or child. The VAWA self-petition process allows the victim of domestic violence to gain LPR status without relying on a petition by the abusive LPR or USC relative. Please see ILRC’s The VAWA Manual: Immigration Relief for Abused
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U.S. citizen children of undocumented parents have the same rights to public benefits as all other citizens. Undocumented parents may apply for their citizen children. If you are undocumented and need to apply for cash, SNAP, or medical assistance for your children, you should not be forced to reveal information regarding
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application submitted to this Office thereafter by non-citizen (alien) applicants: 1. A signed and notarized copy of the attached Citizenship Affidavi t Form; and ... The Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act of 2011 (“IIREA”) provides that “[n]ot later than August 1, 2011, the Attorney General shall provide and make public on the .
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The ability to be considered a citizen in the United States, and receive full citizen privileges, has been limited throughout history to characteristics including place of birth, race, gender, and class (Cacho, 2000). As Haney Lopez (2006) shows, the separation of ‘white’ from ‘nonwhite’ played an
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by a U.S. citizen. Illegal Immigration Cost Massachusetts Taxpayers $1.8 in 2010. Learn more at www.FAlRUS.org. Source: "The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on Massachusetts" FAIR 2011. Created Date:
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CALIFORNIA PROTECTS THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF IMMIGRANTS
citizen as a condition for employment is illegal if the requirement impacts employees or people applying for the job based on national origin or ancestry. • For more information about immigration, citizenship, and language issues in employment, see California Code of Regulations, Title 2, Section 11028. If you have been the subject of unlawful
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composed of an illegal alien parent and a citizen child gains access to federal welfare benefits by virtue of the child’s eligibility. The AFDC, Food Stamp, and SSI programs generally do not provide direct payment of 6We recently reported that in 1995, undocumented alien mothers received Medicaid benefits for 78,386
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agricultural illegal immigrants and legalized illegal immigrants who entered the United States before January 1, 1982, and had resided in the United States continuously with the penalty of a fine, back taxes due, and admission of guilt. • About three million illegal immigrants were granted permanent legal status under these provisions.
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"Citizen Illegal is right on time, bringing both empathy and searing critique to the fore as a nation debates the very humanity of the people who built it." --Eve Ewing, author ofElectric Arches In this stunning debut, poet Jose Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows
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continued on next page TEACHING, INTERPRETING, & CHANGING LAW SIN 1979 ILRC.ORG PG. 1 Immigrating to the United States can be an immense challenge, and adjusting to your new life here poses its own difficulties.
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Written in nonsense language that the sovereign citizen will claim they understand. Do not accept any case citations or “summaries” as correct. Attempt to confuse and dissuade the court from going forward. “Paper Terrorism” Even if the case is dismissed by the state or you dismiss the case/find the sovereign citizen not guilty, they may ...
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U.S. citizen offenders were District of New Mexico (88.4%) followed by District of Arizona (76.7%), Southern District of Texas (72.5%), Western District of Texas (69.3%), and Southern District of California (52.8%) – all of which are districts on the Southwest Border. • The immigration status for non-U.S. citizen offenders was illegal alien ...
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to citizen children of illegal aliens was $479 million for fiscal year 1992. GAO obtained cost estimates from the five states that account for about 80 percent of the illegal immigrant population--California, Texas, New York, Illinois, and Florida. They estimated $2.9 billion in annual federal, state, and local costs for illegal ...
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[obtained illegally by a private citizen] cannot be made on the ground that its acquisition constitutes an unreasonable search and seizure under Penal Code section 1538.5.”]. BUT ALSO SEE People v. Otto (1992) 2 Cal.4th 1088 [suppression is required under federal law when the evidence was obtained by means of a civilian’s illegal wiretap].
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illegal immigrants and temporary visitors, these provisions have only a modest impact on non-citizen household use rates because: 1) most legal immigrants have been in the country long enough to qualify; 2) the bar does not apply to all programs, nor does it always apply to non-citizen children; 3) some states 63% of Non-Citizen Households
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