Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...international outcast. His ideas of adaptation, however, have never included any role in national decision making for South Africa's 21 million blacks. In the new constitutional order, the black majority will still be consigned to the government's long-term program of "separate development," meaning citizenship in artificial "independent homelands" without claims to South African political rights...
...already said that Blacks will not be given full political rights in his childrens' lifetimes (parroting a statement made by former Rhodesian leader Ian Smith shortly before Blacks took control). Instead Blacks, who from a majority of the population, will continue to be consigned to non-citizenship status through the homeland system, nominally independent government established tribal states ruled by puppet chiefs...
...killing the Immigration Reform and Control bill [Oct. 17], the House toadied to pressure groups and our whole country was harmed. But the real losers will be the thousands of illegal aliens who were scheduled for aid and eventual citizenship...
...radioman and Beirut volunteer, he was a year into his four-year service and planned, despite a C high school average, to go to college afterward. A Marine stint, his family told him, would smooth his U.S. citizenship application; the parents had finally applied last spring, just after Alex went to Lebanon...
...Southwest, who saw their pool of cheap labor drying up. Hispanic leaders were concerned that employers would fear the penalties so much that they would discriminate not only against illegal Hispanics, but against all Hispanics. The bill sought to distinguish between the two by requiring proof of citizenship-but civil libertarians immediately warned that a "national I.D. card" was a step toward Big Brother. O'Neill echoed these fears with grossly overblown rhetoric. Said he: "Hitler did this to the Jews. He made them wear dog tags...