Click here to see a graph showing the foreign-born population of the US 1850-2000.
Charlie earlier mentioned the new naturalization test. Here are some sample questions.
Several years ago, President Bush signed an executive order to provide for faster naturalization of noncitizens serving in the military. Here is a story about the 26,000+ new Americans who have taken advantage of that process. Here is video of soldiers becoming citizens while serving in Iraq. Here is the text of the Oath of Allegiance.
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It would seem to me that Bush's executive order is quite dangerous. Wasn't that partly the reason Rome fell -- because non-Romans were more willing than Romans to lie down for the Empire?
Case in point:
There's even discussion of plucking foreign recruits for the U.S. military even before they've left their homeland. Kevin Ryan, a retired Army brigadier general now at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, raised some Pentagon eyebrows last week when he suggested the U.S. Army open a recruiting station in India's capital, Delhi. By tapping into non-citizens eager to wear a U.S. Army uniform, he wrote in a column in the Christian Science Monitor, last year's shortfall of 7,000 Army recruits would evaporate. "Instead of sitting back and waiting for these people to trickle in," he says, "we could go out and find the ones we want." The Army says it's interested in the idea. "It has great promise," says Major General Sean Byrne, the Army's director of military-personnel policy. "We need to pursue it."
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