Assimilation and Citizenship

"Naturalization is the process by which U.S. citizenship is granted to a foreign citizen or national after he or she fulfills the requirements established by Congress in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)."
- United States Citizenship and Immigration Service

"The central question of American immigration policy is how this country can help facilitate the emotional attachments of immigrants and citizens alike to the American national community. . ."
- Stanley Renshon, CIS Fellow

Birthright Citizenship

Dual Citizenship

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Op-ed: Citizenship Without Consent

Only reducing immigration will solve our problem.

Topics: Birthright Citizenship

Citizenship Without Consent

Only reducing immigration will solve our problem.

Topics: Trump 2025 Executive Actions, Birthright Citizenship

Op-ed: Immigration Cannot Solve the Fertility Crisis

What looms over the birthright citizenship debate

Topics: Birthright Citizenship

Trump Issues ‘Birthright Citizenship’ Executive Order

The president wants a dispositive answer to a major question, and is likely to get one soon

Topics: Trump 2025 Executive Actions, Birthright Citizenship

The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move To a Lot Like the Ones They Left

A review

Topics: Costs of Immigration, Assimilation and Citizenship

Is Demography Still Destiny After 2024?

Party coalitions change, but group ideological preferences are more persistent.

Topics: Assimilation and Citizenship

Op-ed: The Myth of the Melting Pot

Topics: Assimilation and Citizenship

Barbara Jordan’s Prescription for Fixing Immigration — and Our National Despair

Wisdom from an 18-year-old op-ed that could have been written yesterday

Topics: Assimilation and Citizenship

It’s Time for an Immigration Moratorium

Topics: Assimilation and Citizenship

Can Aliens Vote in Local Elections? Different Courts Give Different Answers

Topics: State and Local Policy, Assimilation and Citizenship