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[mexmigration: History and Politics of Mexican Immigration] There are significant discrepancies in the way that conflicting ideologies construct and format legislation surrounding ideas of citizenship. One ideology makes a connection between reified notions of American identity and citizenship (deriving from traditions of 'white privilege'), while a separate alternative ideology seeks to examine the ways in which people come to identify as American despite a lack of legal status.

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[Qwaider Planet] Citizenship and competitiveness - أردن مبدع: Note that in both stories, these contributors to the competitiveness and wealth of the US were granted citizenship through their mothers, not their fathers, and because they were born on US soil. While belonging is essential for personal and social security, when it comes to skill and finding an environment that induces ability and encourages risk...it's also very much about finding places where one can express, develop and build on that passion.

[5] TURKEY IS MOVING EAST OR WEST ? « 5: Foreign policy is an uneasy coexistence between ideology and pragmatism, a reflection of the domestic imbalance between religious nationalism and secular citizenship. Since the early 1990s, the confluence of domestic and international events, ranging from the gradual consolidation of civilian rule, to the 2003 Iraq war, the rapid adoption of modern communication technologies, and the vagaries of EU accession, are forcing people to confront the contradictions of balancing between the twin perspectives.

[Bernd Debusmann] Obama, immigration and “anchor babies” | Analysis & Opinion |: Most Liberal doctrines are a sad ideology, that is a disgrace to this sovereign country and indirectly the progressives are to blame for the 2.500 people who died in the carnage at the World trade Center. Law enforcement was prohibited to ask, certain question of the Muslim murderers who crashed the jets into the buildings thanks to the “Politically Correct”

[Militant Libertarian] Birthright Citizenship: Politics vs Rule of Law: In that case, and out of whole cloth, somewhere in the ruling it asserted, almost in passing, that although a child born in the US to two illegal aliens was a US Citizen (????) that, nonetheless, “suspending the alien parents’ deportation based upon “the accident of birth in the US of their son would be to deprive others, who are patiently awaiting visas”¦” Thus, since the passing allusion to the legality of birthright citizenship, though gratuitous””and erroneous””was woven into this suspension of deportation decision, birthright proponents often blithely cite this case to substantiate the incontestable legality of birthright citizenship.

[Amplify Featured Diaries] House Republicans' Latest Legislative Priority: Redefining Rape ...: The argument is this: these fringe conservatives are very adept at selling their selective morality ”” their plan to instantiate the ideology of a few at the expense of hurting the vast majority of our fellow citizens ”” with misleading .I just did a quick search for records and transcripts from in-district town halls held last year, and they're filled with people falsely complaining about undocumented workers automatically earning U.S. citizenship by having a child in .

[Independent Global Citizen] Music and Advocacy « Independent Global Citizen: The power of music can inspire and advocate social and political change. I highly recommend this documentary that chronicles the role of music in addressing public-policies and challenges within political ideologies, economic structures .

[CGS - Education] CGS - Education - Do you agree with the California judge who ...: reciting quasi-religious loyalty oaths to the state every day in school (do any of you homeschoolers have your children perform a similar ritual)? But if you feel differently, ask yourself how you’d feel if a judge (or imam) in a nation like Cuba, North Korea or Iran said the very same words quoted in the excerpt?

[Nechakogal's Blog] A review of Living low paid. « Nechakogal's Blog: Masterman-Smith’s reader friendly treatise on low paid work in Australia reminds us that low-wage work provides hidden involuntary subsidies that underpin our prosperity.  She recommends we include low-wage workers and their advocates in the development of solutions. and be willing to share our good fortune.

[Big Think] Retooling The Idea Of American Exceptionalism | Resurgence | Big Think: An exceptional America would have recognized the sin in the ownership of human flesh earlier, acknowledged the importance of black labor to the growing American economy, and eradicated the social barriers to entering mainstream society back in the middle of the 19th century instead of the 20th. An exceptional America would realize how illogical it is to demonize the same illegal immigrants we depend on to build our houses, harvest our food, and staff our most labor intensive industries and figure out a logical way to incorporate these productive elements of our economy into our society as swiftly and as legitimately as they dispatch their daily tasks.

[GRITtv] GRITtv » Blog Archive » Barry Eisler: Promoting Ideology through ...: They were bought by the Military Shareholders starting in that 1980s M&A run that consolidated all our business into fewer and fewer hands associated with these families. Congress under Reagan wiped out “fairness doctrines”

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