The question of immigration reform is threatening to split the Conservative Party. Conservative hardliners such as Congressman Helmut Dschia (C-Amlitzer) assert that the Kannexan Empire's loose restrictions on asylum takers and refugees in the last decade has raised the threat of espionage and terrorism. The Liberal Party, on the other hand, has maintained that immigration laws remain outdated and require reform to ensure that refugees as well as the 8-million-strong population of illegal immigrants attain legal citizenship. Chancellor Matthias Djiang and his centrist Conservatives remain in the middle, defending the status quo.
Since 2010, regional crises such as the McMasterdonian Crisis or the Rhuvish Question have brought refugees from war-torn nations to Kannex's borders. In 2012, the height of the McMasterdonian Crisis, the number of asylum seekers reached 1.6 million. The vast majority of these asylum seekers do not speak German nor Mandarin and are non-Christian, facts that have led to nativist-tinged protests from all over Kannex. Terrorist incidents such as the 2013 bombing of Shambhala Hotel in Ninglung, Perlsbach, have solidified opposition from a currently small but vocal part of the political spectrum.
The Secure Immigration Reform Bill, as backed by Conservative hardliners, declares several countries as "safe countries of origin" with streamlined rejection of asylum seekers from those countries, as well as stricter immigration requirements such as fluency and loyalty tests, as well as mandatory government-paid integration courses. Without the support from either the centrist Conservative establishment under Chancellor Djiang nor the Liberal Party, the bill is expected to fail.
Student organizations such as the Radical Students League and the Leftist Student Association are protesting on Taitschung University campus in Yinschan Province. Mirror protests are occurring in Kant University and Daidschän University. Students allege that curricula have been marked by pervasive conservative Confucian-Christian bias and that the accomplishments of non-Han, non-Teutonic Kannexans have been unfairly marginalized. Students have also argued for including more course material on the effects of slavery and racism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Another controversial demand is that the college professors begin more teaching on the classic leftists authors, such as Marx and Engels.
"We can't pretend they're bogeyman anymore. If you want fully mature young adults who can think and feel for themselves, you can't censor what is taught in classrooms. We want to learn and think for ourselves, even if the Establishment is uncomfortable about it," according to a sophomore protester at Taitschung, Eva.
The protests have not reached the same level of intensity as four months ago, when similar student protests erupted not over the curriculum, but over the national news story of the Revolutionary People's Party trials. Those protests subsided after half of the RVP suspects were convicted.
Nonetheless, many are concerned by the politicization of students. "This atmosphere is beginning to remind me of 1968," remarked Yinschan provincial assemblyman Kevin Li, referring to the infamous leftist riots of that year. "Students are beginning to focus too much on politics and not enough on their studies. Education is a very important pillar in our society. We have to think about family values, about Kannexan values, and not just what the students want to learn."
The Taitschung University administration announced it would begin reviews of its history curriculum, but that the current course material will be maintained for the next year.
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