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==   __14th Amendment__             //By: Alex Tiso, Maddy Groth, and Joey Schachinger//                 ==


==     * All people born in the the U.S. are citizens. == ==    * All citizens have rights; no citizen has special rights or privileges. == ==    * Each state has at least one representative in congress, according to the states population. People 18 and older can vote at any election of their choice. == ==    * Any person without experience can not be elected without the proper education and will have to take an oath when elected. == ==    * According to the Goverment authorized by law, people in trouble shall not be questioned. ==   ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">  1Q: When was the Amendment ratified? ==

<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">  A: The Amendment was ratified on July 9, 1868.
==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">  <span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">  <span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">       == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">         == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">   2Q: Is this Amendment used everyday? == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">   A: Yes, this is true because new citizens are entering the U.S. everyday. == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">         == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">         == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">   3Q: Who's idea was the Amendment? == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">   A: Most Northern States agreed on the Amendment, but Southern States did not. == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">         == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">         == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">   4Q: What purpose did the Amendment serve? == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">   A: The Amendment was designed to give citizenship and protect the liberties of the free slaves. == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">         == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">         == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">   5Q: Who was the President at the time? == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">   A: Andrew Johnson was the President at the time and served from 1865 - 1869. == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">         == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">         == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">   6Q: What countries are the most immigrants coming from? == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">   A:Immigration in the U.S. mainly comes from Mexico and Central America. == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">         == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">         == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">   7Q: If you are not a citizen what process do you have to go through to become a citizen? == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">   A: You must submit an application, get fingerprinted, have an interview, and take a test. Finally you have to take an oath to become a citizen. == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">         == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">         == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">   8Q: How will it affect the future? == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">   A: It's unknown how this Amendment will affect our country in later years because the country is constantly changing. New Amendments can be ratified and old Amendments can be revised at any time. == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">         == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">         == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">   9Q: How do illegal immigrants affect the U.S.? == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">   A:This depends on your perspective. If you own a big factory or restaurant then you would think it would help the U.S. because the immigrants would be looking for jobs. But if you don't own your own business and you are looking for a job then you will think it is hurting the U.S.      == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">         == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">         == ==<span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">   10Q:Do immigrants have the same rights as U.S. citizens? == == <span style="color: #4b00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;"><span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">  A:They do not until they become a citizen and they can be deported if they are not a citizen. <span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;">    == ==  <span style="color: #489d4e; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;"><span style="color: #2eaf2c; font-family: Georgia, serif;">    <span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;">     ==

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> New York Times.com
== <span style="color: #240ac7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: #fcf8f8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #030202;">  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> April 12,2008  ==

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> By Julia Preston
<span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> **Perfectly Legal Immigrants, Until They Applied for Citizenship** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">     The Servano Family has lived in the U.S. for years and now they are facing deportation. Mr. and Mrs. Servano came to the U.S. 25 years ago from the Phillippines and now that they are applying for citizenship they are being told to leave the U.S. Most of their family are already registered as U.S. citizens including their children because they were born in the U.S. Their problem has not been a rare case in recent years. In the last 12 years people have been denied their citizenship at a consistently higher rate than previous years. Since 1996 at least 85,000 immigrants have been denied citizenship a year. Officials say that immigrants have been denied because they have failed the civics and English language test. The Servanos have many supporters including Arlen Spector who is a Republican from Pennsylvania. To become a U.S. citizen you have to live in the U.S. for 5 years, must have allegience to the Constitution, must pass a test, and also must have an extensive background check. The whole Servano family is worried for Mr. and Mrs. Servano and is hoping they do not have to leave the U.S.

By Joseph Schachinger To read the full article click [|here]       <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">. To read the full article click here [|"Fourteenth Amendment Debate"] Title: Fourteenth Amendment Debate Author: Numbers USA, 2008 Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment says that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction, thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside." This article says that there is a debate with some people believing that the phrase "subject to the jurisdiction" is just another way to say born in the U.S. These people believe that 14th Amendment requires any child born on U.S. soil to be granted U.S. citizenship. Other people believe that the meaning of the phrase is unclear. They believe that "subject to the jurisdiction" does not automatically grant citizenship to every person born on U.S. soil. The second group of people believe that the authors of the 14th Amendment did not want to make every person who happended to be born on U.S. soil a citizen. They think that citizenship should be granted to people who are born on U.S. soil and not subject to the jurisdiction of a foreign country. This means that children of foreigners would not automatically be given citizenship. The supreme court has never made a decision over the meaning of the phrase. Numbers USA feels that Congress needs to explain the meaning of "subject to the jurisdiction" to decide the debate. By Maddy Groth <span style="color: #489d4e; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;"><span style="color: #2eaf2c; font-family: Georgia, serif;">

<span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> Newyorktimes.com Published: December 5th 2008 By: Katie Zezima Officials Accused of Hiring Illegal Immagrants This artical is about a woman by the name of Lorriann Henderson. She worked for Homeland Security to keep illegal immigrants out of the U.S. But, according to the artical she did not do her job. She knew a lady from Brazil that was looking for a job. Lorriann knew she was an illegal immigrant but she not only hired her anyway, she recommended her to a friend, who was also a Homeland Security worker, to clean their houses. The cops arrested her and she was fined $250,000, lost her job,and has to face up to 10 years in prison. People in the U.S would like to know the boarders are safe and there are no illegal immigrants passing, which could causes a burden on tax payers as well as possibly violence in the streets, but now people are thinking twice who they are going to hire for the Homeland Security. It is a very important job, which keeps our streets safe.

By Alexandra Tiso

To read more on this artical click here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/06/us/06immig.html