News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Redesigned citizenship test comes out today

By Louie Gilot / El Paso Times

Article Launched: 02/15/2007 12:00:00 AM MST

A pilot program for a new citizenship test designed to make applicants think about questions rather than just memorize answers makes its debut today in El Paso and San Antonio.

Today, 33 applicants are scheduled to be interviewed and to take the test, which covers U.S. history and civics.

Raymond Adams, Citizenship and Immigration Services director in El Paso, said he didn't know how many of the 33 candidates would volunteer for the new test, but said he felt many would. That's because if they fail the new test, they will be allowed to take the old one right away, without refiling or paying the $330 filing fee again.

The new questions cover the same general subject matter but with less trivia.

One question, for example, asks: "What does the judicial branch do?" The three answers accepted as correct are: "reviews and explains laws," "resolves disputes between parties" and "decides if a law goes against the Constitution."

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