California is challenging the historic status of American citizenship
with measures to permit noncitizens to sit on juries and monitor polls
for elections in which they cannot vote and to open the practice of law
even to those here illegally. It is the leading edge of a national trend
that includes granting drivers’ licenses and in-state tuition to
illegal immigrants in some states and that suggests legal residency
could evolve into an appealing option should immigration legislation
fail to produce a path to citizenship.
With 3.5 million noncitizens who are legal permanent residents in California, some view the changes as an acknowledgment of who is living here and the need to require some public service of them. But the new laws raise profound questions about which rights and responsibilities rightly belong to citizens over residents.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/21/us/california-leads-in-expanding-noncitizens-rights.html?hpw&_r=0
With 3.5 million noncitizens who are legal permanent residents in California, some view the changes as an acknowledgment of who is living here and the need to require some public service of them. But the new laws raise profound questions about which rights and responsibilities rightly belong to citizens over residents.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/21/us/california-leads-in-expanding-noncitizens-rights.html?hpw&_r=0
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