citizenship

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>>A lawyer on the list can help me out (I am not a lawyer - ABA 
>>disclaimer) but as I understand it, the following list in order 
>>starts with the most rights and then for each step certain rights 
>>and priveleges are reduced:
>>
>>U.S. Citizens
>>Documented persons physically in the US
>>Undocumented persons physically in the US
>>All three groups comprise all "US persons" under the law, and certain basic
>>rights protect all.
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>
>thanks. i hope justin or someone knows more. it would be interesting 
>tactic to insist on the use of citizen and demand that the ideal 
>underpinning the C AND BoR be fully realized.
>
>take the word back, like taking the flag back.
>
>kelley

To do so, you'd have to change laws -- for instance, by according 
voting rights to non-citizen residents.  As reported by David Bacon & 
others, propositions like 187 and 227 motivated many immigrants to 
acquire citizenship, precisely because non-citizens are not entitled 
to voting rights.

Yoshie