Word: citizenship
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...state in the Middle East" ("Choosing Sides, Making Friends," Feb. 11) and her characterization of Israel as a theocracy, not a democracy, is ill-informed and false. As proof of the undemocratic nature of Israel, Kawar offers the example of the Law of Return, Israel's policy of guaranteeing citizenship to any Jew wishing to immigrate. How this leads her to conclude that Israel is a theocracy, defined as a government by officials regarded as divinely inspired, is puzzling...
Needless to say, few settings could have been more different from my Harvard existence. The Puritan work ethic, half-hour lunch and drinking age seemed designed specifically to make me miserable. But despite my readiness to apply for Spanish citizenship, there was something I missed. Not apple pie or cheap gas, but the multi-colored, multi-ethnic world I call home...
...Northern Marianas have a commonwealth agreement with the U.S., negotiated in 1975 to give the local population U.S. citizenship while retaining control over labor and immigration. This was intended to help the locals boost their own economy and keep out competitive immigrant labor. The opposite has happened: 90% of private-sector workers are aliens, while unemployment among locals has reached 14.2%. The labor market is so skewed that in 1995 the government had to issue a directive forbidding Saipan's welfare recipients to hire foreign workers as maids. And in establishing the commonwealth, the U.S. Congress certainly did not foresee...
...shores after escaping from Cuba on a 20-ft. raft stocked with water, sugar and four cans of Spam, he indignantly, or perhaps shrewdly, turned down an American offer of asylum. Indignantly, because his six shipmates were not also offered asylum. Shrewdly, because, as agent Joe Cubas advised, claiming citizenship in another country will allow him to avoid the major league baseball draft and immediately make big money as a free agent. El Duque and fellow sailor Alberto Hernandez (no relation) had been barred from baseball in Cuba for helping Livan escape...
Under the panel's plan, the State Department would handle all aspects of legal immigration and would administer the citizenship process. The Justice Department would assume direct responsibility for dealing with illegal immigrants and border control, as well as CIPRIS...