Trump Administration takes action to make us work harder to citizenship through revised citizenship tests
The Trump administration acted again on Wednesday to make it more difficult to obtain U.S. citizenship, announcing a series of changes to the core citizenship test that immigrants must pass before they can be naturalized.
These changes will expand the number of questions immigrants need to be prepared to answer and increase the number of questions they must answer correctly in order to pass.
The changes announced as a federal communique to be decided, and will be launched in 2020 for the same longer and more difficult versions that will be tested and resumed, but will be quickly withdrawn under President Biden’s leadership in 2021.
The shift follows changes in the Trump administration’s process of identifying potential citizens’ eligibility, including a strengthened assessment of their “moral characteristics” and whether they are attributed to any “anti-American” beliefs, as well as a strong examination of community relations and social media networks.
In the wider crackdown on undocumented immigration, what Trump is talking about will be the largest “massive deportation” in U.S. history. The effort has been focused on the Los Angeles area, which is a shock to many Democratic leaders and immigration advocacy groups.
Like the brief 2020 edition, the new naturalization test will be extracted from 128 possible questions and requires potential citizens to correctly answer 12 of 20 questions to pass. According to the current test, its history dates back to 2008, with 100 possible questions that prospective citizens must answer correctly.
Trump administration officials said the new test “will better evaluate foreigners’ understanding of American history, government and English” and is part of a “multi-step overhaul” of the citizenship process that will ensure the protection of traditional American culture and values.
“We are doing everything we can to ensure that anyone with privileged privilege to become a U.S. citizen fulfills their obligations to the new nation,” Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said in a statement.
Immigration advocates impose this change in the administration’s attempts to further hinder the legal avenues of hard-working immigrants already rooted in the United States, which they say is part of a wider, authoritarian movement by Trump and his administration to review potential new citizens and other legal immigrants, with a conservative awareness and loyalty to the underbearing of behavior to his executive branch, who are not enough to make them more than they do, and this is a underdog.
“The Trump administration praised the privilege of being a U.S. citizen, and it was hard to get it, and when you think it was also raised in the Supreme Court, law enforcement can racially discriminate against Latin Lin,” said Jenniferibañez Whitlock, a senior policy adviser at the National Center for Immigration Enforcement. “It all really makes long-term residents who contribute to this country every day ultimately achieve permanent protection only U.S. citizens can provide. ”
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled in an immigration attack in California that immigration agents could stop and detain people they suspected on illegal basis only based on their skin color, Spanish-speaking colors, their work in fields or places where large immigrants work.
Last month, USCIS announced it was stepping up scrutiny of immigrant social media activities and seeking “anti-American ideology or activity”, including “anti-Semitic ideology.” The announcement comes months after targeting pro-Palestinian student activists and other U.S. visa and green card holders, which have raised alarm among constitutional scholars and free speech advocates.
Trump administration officials rejected such concerns, while others attacked those who had no criminal record and racial profiles to target them, as part of a misleading effort by liberals and progressives to protect dangerous, undocumented immigrants for political reasons.
The Department of Homeland Security said in announcing the latest changes to the naturalization test that would make testing more difficult, in which “only those who are truly committed to the American lifestyle are accepted as citizens.”
The department also praised its recent move towards deeper potential citizens, saying the new procedure “includes the resumption of neighborhood interviews with potential new citizens, determine good moral character given whether foreigners have made positive contributions to the community, and verify that they have never granted illegal registration or voted in U.S. elections.”
Recalling the first Trump administration’s test (very similar to the new proposed officials), officials under the Biden administration said, “This could unintentionally create potential obstacles to the naturalization process.”
By contrast, Biden’s agency said the 2008 test – Trump is now replaced again – “Thorough development has been carried out over the years, including the input of more than 150 organizations, including English as a second language expert, educator and historian and being driven before implementation.”
