Molly Charles-Reflections

  Europe you assert human rights across your nations and use dual system to ensure the same. You have taken strong actions against countries that you affirm are violating human rights, including ensuring sanctions for years or decades sufficient to destroy their economy and ensure their development index take a beating. Both EU and US have been always asserting the need to adhere to international law and human rights, but that does not prevent them from being complicit to genocide carried out by Israel, now it’s being played out differently under the so called myth of Gaza Peace Plan a illusion created by US President who has scant respect for law, the same stated by his free throw of bombs in international spaces and indiscriminate violation of migrants including citizens in his own country, thus showing the world he has an inalienable right to go Rogue as a President and as a Nation. But EU you keep asserting how you stand for human rights and in fact, you assert specifically t...

 

  While during colonization the term Alien did occur and it originated from in Latin usage to indicate foreign slaves, why does the Supreme Court of United States finding the term Alien appropriate to describe foreigners even today. It is a derogatory term used to indicate some one as inferior or even sub-human. It is certainly indicating the citizens of United States is somehow the only original form of species called humans. The British did use the term Alien to refer to foreigners, the Aliens Act of 1905, which was basically to discern “undesirable immigrants”. Subsequently under British Nationality Law, there was the British Nationality and Status of Alien act 1914, which later became British Nationality Act 1948. At present as per Cornell University online Library “Alien is a legal term that refers to any person who is not a citizen or a national of the US as listed in the immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Another country Dominica does uses the term with regard to land ...