Posted on 08/25/2025 6:35:57 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Axios co-founder Mike Allen appeared on Monday's Morning Joe to tout the outlet's article, "Trump's identity project," which begins [emphasis added]:
"Through immigration crackdowns and cultural purges, President Trump is wielding government power to enforce a more rigid, exclusionary definition of what it means to be American."
Allen cites as an example:
"We see this in a new question for citizenship applications, an assessment of whether they're of good moral character."
Uh, Mike, hello? That "new" question has been around since 1790, in our country's very first naturalization law. It reads:
"The court admitting such alien shall be satisfied that he has resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States five years; and it shall further appear to their satisfaction, that during that time, he has behaved as a man of a good moral character, attached to the principles of the constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same."
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Even Albert Gallatin, a Swiss born American patriot, was removed from his duly elected U.S. Senate seat for not meeting the residency requirements.
Interesting fact!
back then it was “The law limited naturalization to “free white person(s) ... of good character”
It's a wake up call.
“good moral character, attached to the principles of the constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same”
I can think of a few Americans that would fail that test.
I had to have a good moral character when became an American citizen in 1971
Please do name the population of humans that would not have anyone failing that test. Your comment is meaningless. The issue is that we want to invite and welcome the best and the brightest and those who will be an ASSET to our nation... not every dreg and taker and violent felon and insane person that their home nation no longer wants to deal with. We get to pick and choose who comes here. We cannot pick and choose which of our citizens give birth or not.
Well said!
We are happy to have you here, Nana.
It was that way at Ellis Island for a very long time.
for many years, INS agents were tasked to condcut good moral character (GMC) background investigations of naturalization applicants whose records suggested problems with moral character, such as certain criminal convciions. The practice was ended some time in the 80’s.
By “back then” you mean wa-a-a-a-a-a-ay back then.
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