The Trump Administration has created a new citizenship test for immigrants who wish to become citizens. An organization called National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA) doesn’t like it.
A spokeswoman for this “migrant advocacy” group complained that “This new citizenship test is the latest deliberate and systemic barrier designed to exclude, not educate. A person’s ability to become a citizen should not depend on financial resources, literacy level, arbitrary historical opinions, or what they post on their social media accounts.”
So what’s wrong with screening out people who are poor (and likely to become a burden on taxpayers while diverting services from poor Americans)? And what’s wrong with insisting that would-be citizens be fully literate? A person needs a reasonable level of literacy to vote intelligently. Also, to be a good citizen an individual should have views which are consistent with historic American values.
Without realizing it, this spokeswoman has made a good case for why the new citizenship test is a step in the right direction.
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