{"id":11426,"date":"2010-10-12T10:09:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T17:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11426"},"modified":"2010-10-12T10:09:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T17:09:11","slug":"law-in-flores-villar-case-was-amended-in-1986-but-its-still-sexist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11426","title":{"rendered":"Law In Flores-Villar Case Was Amended In 1986, But It's Still Sexist"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Crossposted)<\/em><\/p>\n

I previously wrote about Flores-Viller v. US<\/a>, a case involving an unequal immigration law which discriminates against fathers.<\/p>\n

I just found out<\/a> that the law was changed to be less onerous back in 1986. That’s a good thing. It is, however, still one law for fathers and a different law for mothers; that sexism seems irrational to me. This law should be amended to be identical for parents of either sex.<\/p>\n

From the New York Times<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n

The law, since amended, allowed fathers to transmit citizenship to their children only if the fathers had lived in the United States before the child was born for a total of 10 years, five of them after age 14. Mothers were required to have lived in the United States for a year before their child was born. (The amended law kept the general system but shortened the residency requirement for fathers.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And according to KPBS legal analysis Dan Eaton<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In 1986, the law was changed so that the father only has to have lived at \u2013 lived 5 years in the United States or continuously be present in the United States for at least 5 years, at least 2 of which were after he turned 14. Now had that been the law, depending on exactly how many months after 16 years old Mr. Flores-Villar\u2019s father was, he would\u2019ve satisfied the law. But the law in effect at the time Mr. Flores-Villar was born is the law that controls, so this amendment that was enacted in 1986 has no effect on this case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Crossposted) I previously wrote about Flores-Viller v. US, a case involving an unequal immigration law which discriminates against fathers. I just found out that the law was changed to be less onerous back in 1986. That’s a good thing. It … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,107,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crossposted-on-tada","category-sexism-hurts-men","category-supreme-court-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}