Biden admin reportedly planning to undo Trump admin’s politicized version of naturalization test – By Gabe Ortiz (Daily Kos) / Feb 15 2021
The politicized version of the U.S. citizenship test put into place by the previous administration in its final weeks of power is also on its way out the door. BuzzFeed News says that the Biden administration is reportedly set on tossing the previous administration’s version of the test into the trash, just over two months after the exam’s changes were officially announced to widespread condemnation.
“Immigrant groups and attorneys claimed the changes were part of the Trump administration’s overall effort to restrict immigration and curtail the number of people able to gain citizenship,” BuzzFeed News reported. “Agency officials, however, said it was part of a process to update the questions to prepare immigrants to become US citizens.” One guess as to which explanation is more likely.
Initial reports on the previous administration’s changes said that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) doubled the number of civics questions that applicants were to be asked, from 10 to 20 out of a possible 100, meaning the passing score would tick up from six correct answers to 12. In other words, making it harder to pass. But other edits make absolutely clear the political nature of the changes, including one flat-out wrong question that had a direct link to the previous administration’s anti-immigrant agenda.
