Mr Kenney pointed to a private member's bill by Conservative MP Devinder Shory that would amend the current Citizenship Act in two ways.
R.140, titled the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2011, which was introduced on Jan 5. 2011, by Rep. Steve King (R-IA) as of last month.
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When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood not as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left.
The second bill, this one on citizenship, attempts a similar balancing act.
The act also contains an EU Citizenship Report, offering suggestions on ways to make the single market more beneficial to individual citizens.
He earned his PhD in Physics at the University of Bristol and in 1942 was granted British citizenship and even signed the Official Secrets Act.
Her plight inspired her to become president of the Arizona Dream Act Coalition, where she promotes citizenship rights for people like her.
And he said he would veto the DREAM Act, which aims to offer citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants who graduate from college or serve in the armed forces.
Romney also said he was "taking a look" at Rubio's recent proposal for a conservative alternative to the DREAM Act, legislation that would grant citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants who have been brought to the United States illegally as children.
He rejected the DREAM Act that would provide a pathway to citizenship for some young illegal immigrants.
The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors -- or DREAM -- Act, would create a path to citizenship for immigrants who entered the United States illegally as children under the age of 16 and have lived in the United States for at least five years, obtained a high school or General Education Development diploma, and demonstrated "good moral character, " the White House said.
For example, Congress refused to pass Mr. Obama's Dream Act, which would provide a path to citizenship for some not here legally.
Democrats are trying to pass several pieces of legislation before a more Republican Congress is sworn in in January, including the START nuclear arms treaty with Russia, a repeal of the ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military, and the so-called DREAM Act, which would create a path to citizenship for young illegal immigrants.
The president also pledged to keep working on passage of the Dream Act which gives children of undocumented workers a chance at full citizenship status.
The Office of Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC) of the Civil Rights Division enforces the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act to ensure that individuals are not being discriminated against based on citizenship or immigration status and national origin with respect to hiring, firing, and recruitment or referral for a fee.
"Canadian citizenship is predicated on loyalty to this country, and I cannot think of a more obvious act of renouncing one's sense of loyalty than going and committing acts of terror, " Mr Kenney told reporters.
In 2006, Ms. Powell Jobs backed an effort led by College Track students to collect signatures backing passage of the Dream Act, a federal bill to put an estimated two million young people on a path to citizenship.
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