Trump administration moves to make U.S. citizenship harder with revised civics test
The Trump administration moved again on Wednesday to make it difficult to win US citizenship, and announced that there were a series of changes in the basic citizenship test that immigrants should go to citizenship.
Changes will expand the number of questions that migrants need to increase the number of questions that they need to prepare for answering and pass the correct answer.
Changes announced in waiting In Federal RecordThe test would largely return to a longer and more difficult version introduced in 2020 in the first period of President Trump, but Returned quickly In 2021, President is under Biden.
The shift follows the US citizenship and immigration services officials in the process of determining whether potential citizens are qualified, including intensive controls of their “moral characters” and intensive controls of any “anti -American” beliefs and community ties and social media networks.
It also comes in the midst of a wider pressure on undocumented migration, and Trump’s say will be the largest “mass deportation ında in the US history. This effort has focused on the surprise of many democratic leaders and immigration advocacy organizations in the Los Angeles region.
The new citizenship test, such as the short -lived 2020 version, will benefit from 128 possible questions and will require potential citizens to answer 12 of the 20 problems correctly. There are 100 possible questions in the current test based on 2008, and candidate citizens should correctly answer six out of 10.
Trump management officials said that the new test will better evaluate a alien’s understanding of US history, government and English language ”and the citizenship process that will ensure the protection of traditional American culture and values is a“ multi -step revision ”part.
“We are doing everything we can to ensure that everyone who is offered to be the privilege of being an American citizen to fulfill their obligations against their new countries, Tr said Tricia McLughlin, Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Interior Security.
Immigration defenders say that the change in order to prevent further prevention of citizenship for citizenship, Trump is a part of a wider, authoritarian campaign for the administrator, for the Assembly, for the Assembly, the people of the Agghas, based on the people of Aghas. They say that they aim to target AGHAL.
Ulusal Göçmenlik Hukuk Merkezi kıdemli politika danışmanı Jennifer Ibañez Whitlock, “ABD vatandaşı olma ayrıcalığına övgüde bulunarak – onu elde etmeyi zorlaştırırken – onu elde etmeyi zorlaştırıyor – Ulusal Göçmenlik Hukuk Merkezi kıdemli politika danışmanı Jennifer Ibañez Whitlock, Yüksek Mahkeme önünde de ırksal olarak profil verebileceğini düşündüğünüzde içi boş çalar. “Tüm bunlar, bu ülkeye her gün katkıda bulunan uzun It is difficult for residents to finally obtain permanent guards that only US citizenship can offer. ”
At the beginning of this month, the conservative majority of the Supreme Court decided in a lawsuit that defies immigrant raids in California, in a case where immigration agents could stop the color of their volumes in the US, Spanish speeches and in areas with large immigrant labor force.
Last month, USCIS is Accelerating immigrants’ control of social media activities And he is looking for “anti -American ideologies or activities, including“ anti -Semitic ideologies .. This announcement was followed for months against the US visa and green card holders, which gave alarms between constitutional scholars and free speech advocates.
Trump administration officials rejected such concerns, and others refused to sweep people used to use to target them as part of an effort to protect even dangerous, undocumented immigrants for political reasons.
In explaining the last change in the citizenship test, the internal security test said it would make it difficult and in this process it enabled “only those who are really connected to the American lifestyle as a citizen”.
The chapter also praised the new process to investigate their last moves deeper, thinking that potential new citizens have made positive contributions to the communities of the aliens, whether the good moral character has not been identified and that they did not try to vote in an American selection ”.
The first Trump administration’s newly similar test – Under the Biden administration, USCIS officials, “accidentally can create potential obstacles in the process of transition to citizenship,” he said.
On the other hand, the agency under Biden said that the 2008 test-Trump has replaced again.
