WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government wants to make the citizenship test for immigrants more meaningful, requiring a better understanding of America's history and government institutions.
No longer would it be sufficient to know the three branches of government (executive, legislative and judicial). Applicants could also be asked why there are three branches of government.
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It is doubtful, however, that there will be accorded follow-up Q&A. Spin does not accomodate Q&A wll at all, as American journalists have learned.
Asking them to expound on the meaning and virtues of a 3 branch form of government, while they observe that only one--the executive--seems to be performing with any real tangible power, allows them to realize the daffy duck rationale of American testing.
The truth is one thing, the actual practice another.
Oh well, they (especially the Mexicans) will comply cheerfully, knowing from their own experiential wisdom
that the same people who write the tests are largely the same people--Republicans and Democrats alike--who laxed the standards of entry so entirely that not only can they cross to work at third world wages, they can return periodically to their home, laden with loot for their families, while Americans scrouge for some financial relief, having had lost their jobs.
The Mexicans are not to be blamed, of course; it is various and sundry management pirates who are making the jobs available. Across the nation, in state after state, housing construction jobs are lost to Mexicans who will work for the third world wages, putting to rest forever the spin that the only jobs lost are those "Americans won't do."
Mexicans, let us face facts, are used to living under repressive, exploitive politicians who say one thing and practive another.
Truth is, Mexicans may well be better prepared to live in today's appropriated, exploited America because they have experience in such matters.
