(Congress Report) – If you didn’t already believe that President Joe Biden has been scheming since he took office to play around with the demographics in the United States, what he just did with the American citizenship test should help cast some doubt on your previous assumptions. I mean, the guy has done nothing to stop the border crisis, nor has he fulfilled his actual job duties to enforce the law by making sure illegal aliens are shipped back to their country of origin. Why has he neglected to take action on this massive, catastrophic situation?
The only answer is playing with demographics. And this move with the citizenship test surely seems to point in that direction as well.
According to the Daily Caller’s Arjun Singh, “U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced changes to the U.S. naturalization test on Wednesday, reducing the difficulty of the English-speaking section and editing the civics section to make the test easier for citizenship applicants, according to an unpublished notice obtained by the DCNF scheduled for publication Thursday.”
“The changes will lead to the English-speaking section being curated to more daily conversational subjects, as opposed to more formal subjects formerly discussed, with standardized criteria for assessment that reduce the examiner’s discretion to judge the quality of responses. ‘Applicants will respond to three color photographs randomly selected from a bank of approximately 70 images that directly correspond to an ordinary usage scenario,’ according to the notice,” Singh wrote.
The civics section of the test will now be redone in a multiple-choice format with four possible options for each question instead of the previous “fill-in-the-blank” test where candidates would have to answer the question from memory. The multiple-choice format, which is also used on standardized tests for college admissions such as the SAT and ACT, increases the likelihood that a candidate will pick the right answer by almost 25 percent, while also allowing candidates to recall the right answer with less difficulty.
#Marines from @2dMarDiv receive their U.S. citizenship during a naturalization ceremony.
Eighteen Marines from fifteen countries and five continents swore the Oath of Allegiance and received their citizenship. #USMC pic.twitter.com/SeNofNgtPJ
— U.S. Marines (@USMC) December 5, 2022
“Primarily, this is about responding to suggestions from the wider community that we’ve received over the past couple of years and making it more fair,” a USCIS official stated during an interview CNN in advance of the notice’s publication. The proposed test will now enter a five-month trial period in 2023 before being officially adopted later in the year, though current citizenship applicants will use the existing test.
“The measure is one of several initiated by the Biden administration to streamline the immigration and naturalization process, as well as reverse Trump-era measures that progressives have claimed were barriers to immigrants’ integration. Twelve days after taking office in 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order directing government agencies to ‘identify [and remove] barriers that impede access to immigration benefits’ as well as conduct a ‘comprehensive review…of the civics and English language tests,'” Singh said.
In November 2021, former President Donald Trump and his administration came up with a brand new syllabus for the naturalization test, which raised the passing threshold to getting 12 out of the 20 questions right. The threshold was previously 10 right answers, with a larger question bank of 128 questions. Officials said the test would “provide the applicant with more opportunities to learn about the United States as part of the test preparation process,” per the USCIS website.
Trump’s version of the citizenship test contained a number of questions on our Founding Fathers such as Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and James Madison. It also featured questions about country history such as the spread of communism, the Civil War, the 14th Amendment, and the War on Terror. Biden, of course, rescinded the test and went back to using the 2008 version that was originally utilized during the last Bush administration in the early 2000s.
Despite making huge changes, the English reading and writing portions of the test will remain the same.
“We welcome input from – and the participation of – stakeholders who are familiar with this important process, as we continue to improve and update our naturalization test,” USCIS Director Ur M. Jaddou stated.
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When I took my citizenship test it was in english only ,you didn’t have a choice you either learn then the language and study or you come back and take it again. I can’t believe what has happen in this country😒😔
Gee..and our commercial truck drivers in the US are people who cannot speak or read the English language, yet they somehow procured a CDL license to drive a big truck and operate on our highways, where road warnings etc are all in English!! And we call this safe?? Perhaps the DOT annual road inspection should include retesting drivers who cannot speak or read English and find out who or where all these commercial drivers licenses were issued. All our lives could be in danger with these people behind the wheel!! We can pass a law requiring an electronic daily log recording device be installed in commercial hauling vehicles, supposedly to keep us all safe, yet we allow foreigners to drive 18 wheelers who cant even read emergency road warning, construction site instructions, road signs, etc. Somehow safe to me and safe to them is not the same “safe”!! TRUCKS ARE THE LIFE BLOOD OF AMERICA. let’s not let them be the thing causing our lifes blood to be spilled along our highways!! And, if our Congress has not made English our official language, perhaps we are not the land of the free that we have been told and are being controlled and overtaken so silently, that by the time we notice it will be too late to save ourselves..