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With the Senate passing its version of an immigration bill last week - complete with a guest worker provision and a path to citizenship for illegals - attention is now focused on the House, which has supported a bill that deals only with border enforcement. So far, the House has showed little signs of budging, and has suggested the public backs its approach. But in fact, polls suggest large majorities of Americans support something akin to what President Bush and the Senate have pushed, a so-called "comprehensive reform" law that would create a guest worker program and provide some path...
...core Republican supporters motivated is key. And according to recent poll results from the Pew Research Center, 19% of Republicans cite immigration as the country's biggest problem, while only 9% of independents and 6% of Democrats rank it so highly. Supporting Bush's proposal for guest workers and citizenship for illegal immigrants, if you're a House Republican, may be a way to lose votes among Republicans (who could sit out the election rather than vote for a member who supports a guest worker program) without gaining any from independents or Democrats, who aren't as fired up about...
...says Andrew Greensmith, a district judge and chairman of an association of family lawyers in England and Wales. To qualify, all a jaded spouse would need is to regularly live in the country for a year (or less, in some cases) or to have ties based on birth or citizenship. With "medical tourism" now an established subindustry, could "divorce tourism" be about to take...
...often exudes the sense of being one large, middle-class neighborhood, comfortably indifferent to what goes on outside its precincts. As one can imagine, Japan has not always received foreigners with particular ease or enthusiasm. The country has some of the most restrictive immigration laws in the industrialized world. Citizenship is based on parentage, making naturalization an extremely arduous and exclusive process. Even those born and raised in Japan with foreign ancestors (often Korean) several generations removed are often not automatically considered Japanese nationals and face obstacles to fully integrating into Japanese society. Most disturbing about Japanese wariness towards foreigners...
...Just as important, the debate could address the issue of race head-on: should ethnicity be a factor in granting citizenship? There are a small number of respectable scholars, like Harvard's Samuel P. Huntington, who argue that the large Hispanic influx into America does threaten its character. A large number of other respectable scholars say German, Irish, Italian, Jewish and Asian immigrants faced the same criticism throughout the country's history. But until politicians define the goals of American immigration policy - who and how many do we want and for what reason - it will be impossible to strip...