As a deportation defense lawyer, it’s one of the most infuriating comments I hear armchair critics make about immigration reform.
“Well, I don’t get it. I don’t know why people can’t wait to enter the country legally. My ancestors had it tough, too, but they came in through proper channels.”
They overlook that was then. This is now.
For immigrants, taking the oath of allegiance means they have crossed the final frontier of immigration law.
It represents a major turning point in their lives.
So what Is The Oath Of Citizenship?
Necessity, it’s often said, is the mother of invention.
Stated more broadly, if something really needs to get done, human beings will find a way of doing it.
That was the situation facing both Black slaves and Chinese immigrants in the late 1800s.
Both groups were subject to extreme racism.
With their very survival under constant threat, their alliance was born.
Most Americans have never heard of the Mascogos.
Yet, as Kevin Sieff explains, in an article written for the Washington Post, the history of the Moscogos offers a unique view into human migration, the way in which a community can be pushed and pulled across borders over centuries.
So who are the Mascogos?
That Time American Women Lost Their Citizenship Because They Married Foreigners
Over the past 36+ months, I have watched the Trump Administration tighten restrictions against legal immigration over and over ago.
It’s gotten to the point that I now wonder, like the Limbo, how low can he go?
Actually, things could be worse.
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