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Citizenship

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Immigration

This U.S. Citizen Was Detained by ICE for Over a Month. Now He's Getting a $150,000 Settlement.

A Government Accountability Office report last year documented hundreds of ICE actions involving potential U.S. citizens.

Fiona Harrigan | 12.15.2022 4:55 PM

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Democracy

Why (Most) Citizens Are Not "Responsible for the Actions of their State"

A comment by Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas highlights a longstanding pernicious fallacy.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 9.25.2022 12:26 AM

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Immigration

Canada Granted Permanent Residency to a Record Number of People in 2021

Canadian officials recognize that immigrants are key to the post-COVID economic recovery. The U.S. should take note.

Fiona Harrigan | 12.28.2021 4:15 PM

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Immigration

These Asylum Seekers Are Losing Jobs Because Bureaucrats Won't Do Theirs

The U.S. is still facing a worker shortage. Why keep willing workers away from jobs?

Fiona Harrigan | 11.17.2021 5:20 PM

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Immigration

Most Americans Favor a 'Pathway to Citizenship' for Undocumented Immigrants

55 percent of Americans say they favor providing a "pathway to citizenship" for undocumented immigrants and 56 percent say that simplifying the process for legal immigration is the best way to reduce illegal immigration.

Eric Boehm | 4.27.2021 1:20 PM

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Immigration

Biden Administration Revokes Trump Changes to Citizenship Test for Immigrants

The previous administration had made some reasonable changes, but also introduced questions based on factual errors and questionable normative assumptions smuggled in under the guise of factual knowledge.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 2.23.2021 12:51 AM

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Reason Roundup

Biden's Immigration Plan: The Good, the Bad, and the Unclear

Plus: Legal cannabis workers now outnumber electrical engineers in the U.S., Portland cops defend dumpsters from hungry people, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 2.18.2021 9:32 AM

Citizenship

D.C. Circuit (Sadly) Affirms District Court in Hoda Muthana Case

Judge Rao writes an opinion rejecting all claims in equity, among other things

Irina Manta |The Volokh Conspiracy | 1.19.2021 5:36 PM

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Immigration

Trump's Staged Naturalization Ceremony Does Not Make Him a Friend of Immigrants

He has done everything in his power to stop immigrants from gaining citizenship.

Shikha Dalmia | 8.27.2020 11:40 AM

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Birthright Citizenship

Orrin Hatch's Constitutional Amendment to Abolish the Natural Born Citizen Clause

In 2003, the prominent conservative Republican senator proposed an amendment that would have eliminated the requirement that the president be a "natural born citizen."

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 8.16.2020 4:35 PM

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Citizenship

Why We Should Abolish the Requirement that the President Must be a "Natural Born Citizen" [Updated]

The ridiculous controversy over Kamala Harris' eligibility to be Vice President reinforces the point.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 8.14.2020 4:24 PM

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Brickbats

Brickbat: A Failure to Communicate

Charles Oliver | 3.11.2020 4:00 AM

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India

Modi Cheerleaders Are Abusing a Well-Intentioned American Refugee Law for Anti-Muslim Ends

They want to scrap the citizenship rights of Indian Muslims because America helped Soviet Jews and Christians.

Shikha Dalmia | 2.11.2020 11:15 AM

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Immigration

There Is No Line

If we want immigrants to follow the law, we need better laws.

James Stacey Taylor | 12.18.2019 6:00 AM

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Immigration

'Good Moral Character' Clause for Immigrants Gives Too Much Discretion to Federal Agents

Adultery and prostitution outweigh spousal and child abuse in USCIS guidelines, but ultimately the call is made on a case-by-case basis.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.17.2019 12:50 PM

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Immigration

Trump Weaponizes the Bureaucracy Against Naturalized Citizens

Shikha Dalmia | 11.26.2019 6:00 AM

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Citizenship

The Trump Administration's New Citizenship Rules for Service Members Abroad Are Petty and Pointless

Their main purpose is to stick it to immigrants working for Uncle Sam overseas

Shikha Dalmia | 9.4.2019 12:45 PM

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Reason Roundup

Military Kids Born Abroad Are Not Being Denied Citizenship

Plus: Gillibrand ends presidential campaign, trouble for Forever 21, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 8.29.2019 9:30 AM

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India

India Is Riding the Nativist Wave to Launch the Biggest Decitizenship Drive in Human History

This is a giant step in advancing Prime Minister Nardendra Modi's vision of India as a Hindu nation.

Shikha Dalmia | 8.28.2019 11:05 AM

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Immigration

Trump's New Welfare Rule Cuts Immigration Against Congressional Will

Only wealthy immigrants will have a clear shot at being admitted or staying.

Shikha Dalmia | 8.13.2019 12:15 PM

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U.S. Citizen Was on the Verge of Self Deporting After Being Detained for Weeks at Squalid Immigration Facility

The young man was finally released from custody this week.

Ben McDonald | 7.26.2019 1:50 PM

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Census

Blame Wilbur Ross's Clumsy Lies for the Census Mess

The commerce secretary could easily have reinstated the citizenship question if he had been less transparently dishonest.

Jacob Sullum | 7.10.2019 12:01 AM

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Donald Trump

It's Donald Trump's America, We Just Live in It. Or Is It?

The president's seeming ability to always get what he wants masks the reality that anything is possible in today's political and cultural landscape.

Nick Gillespie | 7.3.2019 9:58 AM

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Borders

Xenophobia and Pseudoscience Shaped U.S. Immigration Policy

Historian Daniel Okrent looks back at the bigoted "intellectual justification" for anti-immigration policies.

Nick Gillespie | 5.22.2019 3:15 PM

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Donald Trump

Today's Anti-Immigration Script Was Written 100 Years Ago by America's Elite

Historian Daniel Okrent's new book, The Guarded Gate, recounts the history of bigotry, eugenics, and the "intellectual justification" of anti-immigration policies.

Nick Gillespie, Ian Keyser, and Todd Krainin | 5.17.2019 3:45 PM

Volokh Conspiracy

United States v. Eguilos and Denaturalization

George H.W. Bush appointee denounces second-class citizenship, cites to my work with Cassandra Robertson

Irina Manta |The Volokh Conspiracy | 4.17.2019 11:23 PM

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Denaturalizing for Post-Citizenship Crimes: Italy Edition

Italy's recent legal changes go beyond denaturalizing for pre-naturalization activity and set a dangerous precedent.

Irina Manta |The Volokh Conspiracy | 3.22.2019 1:26 PM

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Immigration

Border Agents Detained a 9-Year-Old U.S. Citizen for 30+ Hours

It's wrong any way you slice it.

Joe Setyon | 3.22.2019 10:45 AM

Volokh Conspiracy

Denaturalizing Natural-Born Citizens

Why Hoda Muthana Can't Be Kept Out of the United States

Irina Manta |The Volokh Conspiracy | 2.26.2019 10:53 PM

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Census

Federal Judge: Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross 'Violated the Public Trust' with Census Citizenship Question

The Trump administration can't ask about citizenship on the 2020 census, Judge Jesse Furman ruled.

Joe Setyon | 1.15.2019 11:45 AM

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Immigration

Here's What You Need to Know to Argue in the Latest Immigration Debate

President Trump's hardline immigration stances have made for some polarizing debates.

Zuri Davis | 10.31.2018 12:45 PM

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Immigration

ICE Kept This Citizen and Father of 4 Locked Up for Nearly 2 Years

Levy Jaen is finally home, but only after a court affirmed what he's always known-that he's a U.S. citizen.

Joe Setyon | 8.21.2018 1:35 PM

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Adopted 4-Year-Old Daughter of Americans Probably Won't Be Deported. Either Way, Our Immigration System Is Broken.

Angela Becerra's case is a reminder that legal immigration is more complicated than just "getting in line."

Joe Setyon | 8.10.2018 3:50 PM

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Citizenship

The Latest Target of the Trump Administration's Anti-Immigration Jihad: Naturalized Americans

It has revived a dead program and created a task force to review citizenship applications

Shikha Dalmia | 7.18.2018 6:00 PM

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Immigration

Will a New Question Scare Illegal Immigrants Away from the Census?

Matt Welch | 5.27.2018 6:00 AM

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