Kenyans overseas send over $2 billion a year, more than any other forex earner in Kenya. This has drastically reduced the borrowing and begging that used to go on pre-90s.
49% (fluctuates between 48 & 52%; with hawala - 60-70‰) comes from North America. All that is about to end. @Purple, pack your bags. The Donald doesn’t care that you’ve kept his torch burning on ktalk.
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[SIZE=7]In America, Naturalized Citizens No Longer Have an Assumption of Permanence[/SIZE]
Masha Gessen
June 18, 2018 12:24 PM
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The conceit of naturalization is that it makes an immigrant not only equal to natural-born citizens but indistinguishable from them.
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Last week, it emerged that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (U.S.C.I.S.) had formed a task force in order to identify people who lied on their citizenship applications and to denaturalize them. Amid the overwhelming flow of reports of families being separated at the border and children being warehoused, this bit of bureaucratic news went largely unnoticed. But it adds an important piece to our understanding of how American politics and culture are changing.
Like many of the Trump Administration’s sadistic immigration innovations, the new task force doesn’t reflect a change in the law. In fact, like a number of practices, including mass deportations, it builds on the legacy of the Obama Administration, which set in motion the process of reëxamining old naturalization files. L. Francis Cissna, the director of U.S.C.I.S., told the Associated Press that his agency is looking for people who “should not have been naturalized in the first place”—for example, those who had been ordered to be deported earlier and obtained citizenship under a different name—and this sounds reasonable enough. It’s the apparent underlying premise that makes this new effort so troublesome: the idea that America is under attack by malevolent immigrants who cause dangerous harm by finding ways to live here.
Historically, denaturalization has been an exceedingly rare occurrence, for good reason: by the time a person is naturalized, she has lived in this country for a number of years and has passed the hurdles of obtaining entry, legal permanent residency, and, finally, citizenship. The conceit of naturalization is that it makes an immigrant not only equal to natural-born citizens but indistinguishable from them. So denaturalization, much like the process of stripping a natural-born American of citizenship, has been an extraordinary procedure reserved for very serious cases, mostly those of war criminals.
Earlier this year, I wrote about a very different case, that of a forty-three-year-old man named Baljinder Singh, who was denaturalized after living in this country for twenty-six years. Singh was not a war criminal, or any other kind of criminal, but his immigration process had been a mess, and may have involved the intentional fudging of his first name. What was exceptional about Singh, though, was that he was ordinary, both as a one-time asylum seeker and as a resident of New Jersey. But he was clearly no ordinary citizen, for no one would call into question an ordinary, native-born citizen’s right to reside permanently in the United States, or to work, vote, and receive benefits. In effect, Singh’s naturalization was undone long before he was actually denaturalized.
The new task force will produce many more such cases. Indeed, the creation of the task force itself is undoing the naturalization of the more than twenty million naturalized citizens in the American population by taking away their assumption of permanence. All of them—all of us—are second-class citizens now. [COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)]The President calls immigrants “animals.” The Attorney General presumes that everyone crossing the border—or at least the southern border—is a criminal.
Michael Bars, the U.S.C.I.S. spokesman, told the Washington Examiner that the agency is hiring dozens of lawyers for the new task force. The mandate, according to both Cissna and Bars, is to find people who deliberately lied on their citizenship applications, not those who made innocent mistakes. The distinction is fuzzier than one might assume.
Back in 1989, I had to make a decision about whether to lie on my citizenship application. At the time, immigration law banned “aliens afflicted with sexual deviation,” among others suffering from “psychopathic personality,” from entry to the United States. I had come to this country as a fourteen-year-old, in 1981, but I had been aware of my “sexual deviation” at the time, and this technically meant that I should not have entered the country. I decided to append a letter to my citizenship application, informing the Immigration and Naturalization Service that I was homosexual but that I disagreed with the exclusion and would be willing to discuss the matter in court. I was young, ambitious, and pragmatically cocky: I had entered the country as a stateless person, not to mention a minor, so I figured that I couldn’t be deported. The rational thing to do, however, would have been to obfuscate on my citizenship application.
My application was granted without my having to fight for it in court. I hadn’t thought about my naturalization for years, but I find myself thinking about it now, thankful for the near-accident of not having lied on my application. Over the years, the applications for both citizenship and permanent residence have grown ever longer, filling with questions that seem to be designed to be used against the applicant. Question 26 on the green-card application, for example, reads, “Have you EVER committed a crime of any kind (even if you were not arrested, cited, charged with, or tried for that crime)?” (Emphasis in the original.) The question does not specify whether it refers to a crime under current U.S. law or the laws of the country in which the crime might have been committed. In the Soviet Union of my youth, it was illegal to possess foreign currency or to spend the night anywhere you were not registered to live. In more than seventy countries, same-sex sexual activity is still illegal. On closer inspection, just about every naturalized citizen might look like an outlaw, or a liar.
Is this the first time people have been denaturalized in the U.S.?
Nope.
Ndio hio list:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_denaturalized_former_citizens_of_the_United_States
Last one… In a nutshell:
[SIZE=7]Trump Creates ‘Denaturalization’ Task Force to Pursue Deportation Against Thousands of U.S. Citizens[/SIZE]
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Director L. Francis Cissna of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House on December 12, 2017, in Washington, D.C.Photo: Mark Wilson (Getty Images)
There’s government pork and then there’s just swine.
Our posturing president, who is wasting colossal amounts of money to appeal to his rabidly anti-immigrant base, would be the latter.
In June, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services quietly announced a new task force that will investigate “bad” naturalization cases, wherein the agency will hire dozens of lawyers and immigration officers “to find U.S. citizens they say should not have been naturalized, to revoke their citizenship, and then eventually deport them,” according to The Takeaway, from WNYC and Public Radio International.
CNN reports that that the new office in Southern California will review cases and then refer them to the Justice Department, which will then pursue denaturalization proceedings against U.S. citizens accused of fraud.
In an interview with the Associated Press, USCIS Director L. Francis Cissna said the number of cases could reach into the thousands—this in a nation of about 325 million.
“We finally have a process in place to get to the bottom of all these bad cases and start denaturalizing people who should not have been naturalized in the first place,” Cissna said. “What we’re looking at, when you boil it all down, is potentially a few thousand cases.”
CNN reports:
[INDENT]Since the Obama administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has also been working to put more than 300,000 fingerprint records into a system that can be checked against citizenship applications.[/INDENT]
[INDENT]According to USCIS, the effort to followup on those records has resulted in 2,500 cases that have been flagged for in-depth review, and 95 of those have been referred to the Justice Department to date.[/INDENT]
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A former chief counsel for USCIS, Ur Jaddou, now a director at the pro-immigration advocacy group America’s Voice, said it was “troubling” that the Trump administration was looking at what has been an ongoing issue.
“Under this administration, this denaturalization effort, doesn’t feel like a good government ensuring integrity,” Jaddou said. “That was already happening before this administration. …So, it begs the question, why the sudden new and, especially public, focus?”
I think we all know—harassment, fear and playing to the piggiest of people.
Do you want this to stop???start kicking the whites out of Africa
I saw a news feature which showed how immigrant akiwa deported back to some South American countries hata hamalizi a whole week huko. Anakuta a new birth certificate and passport paid for with the dollars he or she sends home. A brand new identity. Kama ya bro yake hivi.
Ni kupanda tu ndege na kurudi california. Risky of course because you risk jail time if caught again. The poverty is real. Raiya mmoja ana feed entire village of Rodriguezs and Alejandros.
This America. Si Mungu ungetengeneza mbili watu wae de America B. But ni miaka nne ama nane tu Trump aende kama amewaudhi hivo. Hata Bush alienda. Unlike in the countries where immigrants come from where the leader or the status quo is often for a lifetime.
If you read anything we write which I assume you don’t sisi hutetea policy zake. huyu uhuru kenyatta wako ameuza nchi mzima kwa China hata biashara kidogo huwezi fungua utengeneze hata kiatu juu ya dumping of cheap Chinese shoes and other products. Trump is protecting the American product lakini in your shallow minds ni adui.
If you make something innovative and popular right now Chinese waone, ndio hio wewe kwisha. Copyright law ni nonsense to Chinaman.
Immigrants in US mtaona moto. Wacha nitulie hapa Vumbistan
America is overrated, its not heaven you have to hustle to survive
Watu wa US max out loans and credit cards and send the money home in case you get kicked out by this.
What is wrong about cleaning up a broken immigration process? Does expelling those who lied to get in make you racist? Or is it comparing cold blooded murderers to animals that makes you one?
People complain day and night about corruption in Kenya, but it is this kind of thinking that will start crying aloud about unfair treatment kwa MTU WETU when we finally start cracking down hard on beneficiaries of corruption.
It’s really hard to respond to an ignoramus like you but I’ll try. The system of cleaning up the immigration process started way before Drumpf trotted his circus to the Whitehouse. The difference is that they are now using that routine govt process to try and drag all immigrants from non-caucasian countries through it. And given this administration’s track record, speeding tickets can be used to revoke your citizenship. It does two other things; the scare factor will result in people leaving before they’re thrown out. It also scares the bejesus out of everyone thinking of naturalization. Again only those people with darker skins. It would be a change-of-pace if “Asians and Pollocks” were included as well but Drumpf can’t defend that to his racist base.
Now we’ve heard all of the retarded redneck arguments that have been floated on Fox News, so there’s nothing you’re proving on ktalk. I would be tempted to tell you to respect yourself but I don’t know you…
I doubt that the fool will understand. That is a problem common to Blacks who committed to Trump during the heady campaigns and now have huge feelings of cognitive dissonance but they cannot back out. They have no other option but to defend him in a knee-jerk manner while insulting his critics, no matter how preposterous his actions or utterances.
Notice that neither Purple nor Patco has chimed in about Pompeo’s humiliating misadventure in Pyongyang.
It will haunt them one day assuming they are not posting out from a cyber in Nairobi. Pretending to be white is a form of impersonation, @patco has certainly escaped being caught for offenses let alone crimes, which means he would be subject to deportation under his role model’s standards:
[INDENT]The citizenship application contains the question, “Have you EVER committed, assisted in committing, or attempted to commit, a crime or offense for which you were NOT arrested?” (emphasis original). Lying on that question makes any applicant vulnerable to having his or her citizenship later revoked and is the basis of the vast majority of denaturalization cases.[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]Last summer, the Supreme Court heard a court case about how broadly the government could use answers to that question to revoke citizenship. The U.S. attorney argued that it could for any crime, even something as small as driving five miles over the speed limit, an example provided by Chief Justice John Roberts as a crime he had committed but never had been arrested for.[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]During the hearing, Justice Stephen Breyer said he found it “rather surprising that the government of the United States thinks” the naturalization law should be “interpreted in a way that would throw into doubt the citizenship of vast percentages of all naturalized citizens.”[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]The court ruled unanimously that only material offenses need to be disclosed.[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]How “material offenses” get interpreted is beginning to play out in denaturalization cases around the country, as decades-long residents find themselves unexpectedly in court. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article214173489.html [/INDENT]
what are you smoking? or what pills are you on brother? Who impersonating who??!
It’s okay to be in denial about what you aspire to be, for best tips on how to cope, ask Sammy Sosa he might share his list of products for your benefit.
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