Citizenship and Equal Justice Flashcards
An ____ is a person who lives in a country where he or she is not a citizen.***
alien
An ______ is a person who comes to a new country intending to live there permanently.***
Immigrant
United States law classifies aliens into __ different categories
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______ alien is a person from a foreign nation who has established permanent residence in the US.***
resident
A ______ alien is a person from a foreign country who expects to stay in the US for a short, specified period of time.***
non-resident
An ______ alien is a citizen of a nation with which the US is at war.***
enemy
______ are people fleeing to escape persecution or danger.***
Refugees
An ______ alien is a person who comes to the US without a legal permit.***
illegal
The protections that the ________ guarantees applies to aliens as well as citizens.
Bill of Rights
In 1982, the Supreme Court ruled that the state of Texas could not deny free public ______ to children of illegal aliens ***
education
_____ cannot vote and are exempt from military and jury duty
alien
_____ are not guaranteed the right to travel freely in the US
Aliens
All aliens are required to notify the ________ when they change their residence.***
US Citizenship and Immigration Services
The _____ clearly assigns Congress the power to control immigration policy.***
Constitution
In 1882 Congress passed the first major ___________ that barred entrance to people such as the mentally handicapped, convicts, and paupers.
federal immigration law
Congress also passed the _______ which restricted the admission of Chinese laborers.***
Chinese Exclusion Act
Chinese Exclusion Act The law marked the first time a federal law had restricted either ____ and ____ on the basis of nationality or ethnicity.***
immigration or citizenship
The ________, known as the Johnson Act , lowered the number of immigrants allowed into the country to less than 165,000 per year.
Immigration Act of 1924
The ______ gave countries such as England and Ireland high quotas.
National Origins System
The Immigration Reform Act of 1965 set up two categories of immigrants:
Those who could come from other countries of the eastern hemisphere.
Thoses who could come from the western hemisphere.
Congress passed the _______ law that provided a way for illegal immigrants to become permanent residents and citizens, as well as punishment for employers who hire illegal immigrants.
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
Aliens who can show that they have lived here since ____ and have resigned here continuously in the country then they you can apply for _____.***
1982, Amnesty
By 1990, 85% of immigrants to the US were coming from ____ and ____.
asia and latin america
The ________ established a limit on immigrants from any single country to no more than 7% of the annual visas.
Immigration Act of 1990
The Immigration Act of 1990 encouraged immigration of workers with “__________’’
“extraordinary abilities”
Special Immigrants fall into 3 groups:
refugees replaced by war, close relatives to the US citizens, or those admitted through private laws passed by congress.
______ law is one that applies to a single person.
Private
Every citizen of the US goes through a process of ________.
naturalization
______ is the legal process by which person is granted the rights and privileges of a citizen.
Naturalization
_____ vs. _______ in ____ challenged the basis of state citizenship
Dred Scott vs. Stanford in 1857
The supreme court ruled that Scott could not ring legal suit in federal court bc he was not a ______.
citizen
_________ hoped that the Courts decision would begin a “chain of events” that would produced a “complete overthrow of the whole slave system”
Fredrick Douglass
The 14th amendment to the constitution overruled the ______.
Dred Scott decision
There are 3 basic sources of US citizenship:
Birth on American Soil
Naturalization
Being borne to a parent who is a US citizen
______ is a Latin phrase that means “law of soil”
Jus Soli
________ grants citizenship to nearly all people born in the US or in American Territories.
Jus Soli
__________ means “ law of blood”
Jus Sanguinis
If an individual is born in a foreign country and both parents are US citizens, the child is a citizen, provided one requirement is met.
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If only one of the parents is an american citizen, that parent must have lived in the US or American possession for at least 5 years, 2 of which had to occur after the age of 14
.
All _________ who wish to become American citizens must go through naturalization.
immigrants
The major exception is that a ________ is not eligible to serve as president or vice president of the US.
naturalized citizen
