Word: citizenship
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...That's a pretty good template for the challenges ahead, like energy independence and entitlement reform. As a Senator, McCain has a long record of taking hard positions and ignoring party orthodoxy in the hunt for common ground. Obama, meanwhile, has claimed that he can expand the concept of citizenship to include more than casting a ballot every so often. But neither one dug in this time to explain why this bailout was necessary and why people needed to swallow hard and accept it, most notably when they were given the opportunity during last Friday's debate. It's natural...
...erect walls along the Mexican border, create a Fortress America, and declare the problem solved, in an increasingly global economy, fencing ourselves in is a sure path to ruin. A combination of heightened border security, an increase in the number of visas and green cards, and a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants would be a much wiser course of action. Similar legislation was defeated in 2006 by far-right Congressional Republicans; the next president should urge the 111th Congress to pass it.Americans must reject bigotry and courageously welcome immigrants with open arms, especially in the face of a slowing...
...Confronting the Roma issue in 2008 raises questions about immigration and citizenship, identity and belonging, social policy, individual freedom and collective accountability. With their ancestry tracing back to the Indian subcontinent, the Roma settled, over the centuries, across many parts of the world, but especially in central and eastern Europe. Poor and often living apart from mainstream society, an estimated 1 million Roma went to their deaths in Nazi camps in World...
...Today, immigrants from Africa and Asia, some who have no legal right to be in an E.U. member state, are typically aching to cooperate with authorities in order to gain legal residency or citizenship. After centuries living on the margins of established European society, often choosing separate schooling and housing, it can still be difficult to pin down what Roma want from the state. Seeing the issue through the eyes of Claudio the social worker was a reminder of how much this unique ethnic group confounds fixed ideas. Bologna is one of Italy's most productive and politically progressive cities...
...need that service now. We face determined enemies and definitive challenges at home. This moment is too important for America's greatest resource--our people--to sit on the sidelines. So as President, I will ask for the active citizenship of Americans of all ages and walks of life...