They can become a citizen then in 4 years instead of 5. Also. it helps prospective citizens learn more about the American way of life. Albert Shanker. the late President of the American Federation of Teachers. said the common school was created in America. the public school. to help largely immigrant children learn reading and writing and arithmetic and what it means to be an American. with the hope they would go home and teach their parents. The last time we had such a large percentage of foreignborn people in our country was in about 1900. the turn of that century. Organizations all over America got busy helping new arrivals learn about our country. learn about our Declaration of Independence. learn about our Constitution and the ideas that were part of it because they knew that. since you do not become a citizen based upon your race or your ancestry and you do it upon the idea of America. that someone needed to help these people learn about the idea of America.
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