Rise in sham marriages to beat UK immigration laws

"The number of suspected sham marriages by illegal immigrants has leapt by more than half in the past year. Figures from the Home Office show a 54% jump in suspected cases reported by registrars in England and Wales. " This is very reminiscent of reports from the US about...

Constitution Day Celebrated On September 17

The United States' Constitution turns 222 on September 17th. This holiday was established in 2004, with the passage of an amendment by Senator Robert Byrd to the Omnibus spending bill. Before 2004, Constitution Day was known as Citizenship Day. The Constitution was signed in...

The Bigotry of the Birthers

John McCain was not born in the United States of America. He was born on a military installation in the Panama Canal zone where his father, a navy officer, was stationed.  In light of the ongoing uproar by the “birthers” about the authenticity of President...

For wounded soldier, citizenship is 'icing on the cake'

" Alcivar, 25, was sworn in as a United States citizen on Friday, some 20 years after coming to the United States, four years after joining the Army, and months after a sniper outside Baghdad, Iraq, shot him in the leg. At any given time, roughly 40,000 noncitizens serve in...

Judge throw out lawsuit questioning Obama's citzenship

The lawsuit didn't even use Obama's legal name but called him "Barry Soetoro," the name he went by while attending elementary school in Indonesia." A federal judge on Thursday threw out a lawsuit questioning President Barack Obama's citizenship, lambasting the case as a waste...