Naturalization timing disputes recur because citizenship changes electoral composition

Evidence

That political dynamic continues to prevail in contemporary politics, with the Republican Party pushing to delay the naturalization of immigrants currently residing in the United States, and the Democratic Party attempting to ensure that naturalization. Thus, under President Clinton, the Immigration and Naturalization Service launched a program called Citizenship USA, which aimed to speed up naturalization. Republicans at the time viewed Citizenship USA as an attempt to increase the number of Democratic voters, and charged that a top aide to Vice President Gore had called the program a “pro-Democratic voter mill.” — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 319

Categorization

• XREF: Illustrates how procedural rule choice (naturalization speed) converts projected group interest into durable policy stakes — relevant to institutional persistence claims in the reader’s own work. — connects to: Naturalization policy in the 1800s was openly driven by electoral self-interest — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 318; Party positions on naturalization are defended openly in electoral terms — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 324

Broader Connections

• Party positions on naturalization are defended openly in electoral terms #expands (0.85) — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 324