In a video posted earlier this week, members of the Immigrant Archive Project — an oral history project that collects the stories of American immigrants — did a series of “man-on-the-street” interviews with passersby in Miami.
They asked questions from the US citizenship test that every immigrant is required to take in order to naturalize. All of those questioned were natural born and raised Americans.
The results? Well, take a look below.
For some context, as of December 2013, 91 percent of immigrants who took the full citizenship test passed it by getting six of ten questions correct. Immigrants are given a list of 100 possible questions and answers to study beforehand, and the ten questions are selected at random.
Immigration is a hot topic in politics today. Some in our country feel immigrants should have to work harder to earn a place in the USA. But could those same folks answer simple 6th grade questions about our country and it’s history?
