The ACLU of Southern California is filing a lawsuit on behalf of a number of US residents who have waited long amounts of time for citizenship, according to an article at the ACLU-SC website. According to US law, one must be granted or denied citizenship no more than 120 days after completing the naturalization examinations. Though the people the ACLU-SC is supporting have completed the examinations, they have all been waiting at least two years. They have been delayed because of a “name check,” which is without deadlines.
All of the people are valuable members of their community. They’re not criminals, they’re not even suspected criminals. One even served in the Air Force, fighting for a country that won’t let him become a citizen. That’s not being real supportive of our troops. Another is a doctor.
It would seem that the Bush administration is fighting immigrants on two fronts, the illegal immigration front and the entirely legal front. If you want to discourage illegal immigration, though, you shouldn’t make legal immigration impossible.
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