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Trump aide Stephen Miller, meet your great-grandfather, who flunked his naturalization test - p8712 - 06-21-2018
Oops
Eshman’s article laid out the story, concluding that “Miller demonstrates that in America, truly anything is possible: The great-grandson of a desperate refugee can grow up to shill for the demagogue bent on keeping desperate refugees like his great-grandfather out.”
Re: Trump aide Stephen Miller, meet your great-grandfather, who flunked his naturalization test - hal - 06-21-2018
I didn't realize that his great grandfather was mexican...
Re: Trump aide Stephen Miller, meet your great-grandfather, who flunked his naturalization test - steve... - 06-21-2018
Good article - thanks for the link.
“The point is our commonality,” she says, “a reminder that this is everyone’s family.” Donald Trump’s grandfather, she noted, came here in part to avoid the draft in his native Bavaria while “his mother came here as a servant. Imagine if they tried to come today.”
Re: Trump aide Stephen Miller, meet your great-grandfather, who flunked his naturalization test - pdq - 06-21-2018
Awesome- thanks!
Re: Trump aide Stephen Miller, meet your great-grandfather, who flunked his naturalization test - mrbigstuff - 06-21-2018
Doesn't matter, they're here now, and they control the means. It's all about not giving up power, control, money, etc. Just as the plebes feel bad about the wealthy being taxed, because, you know, they may one day find out that they, too, are billionaires.
Re: Trump aide Stephen Miller, meet your great-grandfather, who flunked his naturalization test - SteveG - 06-21-2018
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. For the first time, Federal law proscribed entry of an ethnic working group on the premise that it endangered the good order of certain localities.
The Chinese Exclusion Act required the few nonlaborers who sought entry to obtain certification from the Chinese government that they were qualified to immigrate. But this group found it increasingly difficult to prove that they were not laborers because the 1882 act defined excludables as “skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining.” Thus very few Chinese could enter the country under the 1882 law.
The 1882 exclusion act also placed new requirements on Chinese who had already entered the country. If they left the United States, they had to obtain certifications to re-enter. Congress, moreover, refused State and Federal courts the right to grant citizenship to Chinese resident aliens, although these courts could still deport them.
When the exclusion act expired in 1892, Congress extended it for 10 years in the form of the Geary Act. This extension, made permanent in 1902, added restrictions by requiring each Chinese resident to register and obtain a certificate of residence. Without a certificate, she or he faced deportation.
The Geary Act regulated Chinese immigration until the 1920s. With increased postwar immigration, Congress adopted new means for regulation: quotas and requirements pertaining to national origin. By this time, anti-Chinese agitation had quieted. In 1943 Congress repealed all the exclusion acts, leaving a yearly limit of 105 Chinese and gave foreign-born Chinese the right to seek naturalization. The so-called national origin system, with various modifications, lasted until Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1965. Effective July 1, 1968, a limit of 170,000 immigrants from outside the Western Hemisphere could enter the United States, with a maximum of 20,000 from any one country. Skill and the need for political asylum determined admission. The Immigration Act of 1990 provided the most comprehensive change in legal immigration since 1965. The act established a “flexible” worldwide cap on family-based, employment-based, and diversity immigrant visas. The act further provides that visas for any single foreign state in these categories may not exceed 7 percent of the total available.
Re: Trump aide Stephen Miller, meet your great-grandfather, who flunked his naturalization test - $tevie - 06-22-2018
I think it’s unfortunate that the article’s headline makes it sound like Miller’s great-grandfather never became a citizen when in fact he passed the test later on. The point of the research is not to prove his great-grandfather was illegal and/or stupid.