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This is still done today and people with prison records have committed crimes. A country needs responsible citizens for new citizens and a criminal has all ready proven that they are not to be trusted.
African-Americans are first-class citizens just like anyone else who was either born in the United States or who are naturalized citizens.
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No.
If they were born in American or become American citizens, then they are Americans.
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Americans spent a huge amount of money on a war that did not exist and wasn't going to. And Americans got a taste of communism themselves with McCarthyism. The McCarthy hearings and the resultant blackballing of certain citizens who had committed no crimes also gave Americans an inside look at fascism.
Yes, Native Americans are considered American citizens. They are citizens of the United States by birth or naturalization, just like any other person born in the country.
Yes, if they are born in the US, they are US citizens.
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