Huffington Post – by Elise Foley, Philip Lewis
Anna from “Frozen” and Captain Phasma from “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” are now U.S. citizens. So are a hot dog, a butterfly, a SWAT team officer and a mini-Donald Trump.
Or, at least, their likenesses are. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services hosted a special naturalization ceremony on Friday for children whose parents recently became U.S. citizens. Since it was the day before Halloween, the kids were invited to wear costumes and go trick-or-treating around the offices afterward.
With their parents watching, the children took the oath of allegiance, watched a video message from President Barack Obama, and heard from Citizenship and Immigration Services Director León Rodríguez, who, for part of his remarks, was dressed as Fred Flintstone.
“This is a place of limitless possibilities,” Rodriguez told the children. “And part of that comes from taking advantage of those rights and responsibilities that we talked about before, and part of it comes from pursuing your dreams to be whatever you want to be.”Beatrice, who is originally from Ghana, dressed as Minnie Mouse.
See the rest here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/halloween-naturalization-ceremony_5633df18e4b00aa54a4e4690
Check out the link for photos and nationalities.
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outstanding people Angel. 🙂
Thanks for the link, Angel
I looked at their photos, and where they were from, and as I expected, I wouldn’t have any objection to any of them becoming citizens if they followed the legal procedures for doing so.
BUT…. that’s exactly why this little party was thrown, and why it’s in the news. The people here don’t represent who is actually coming over the border, and this whole story makes the entire “illegal immigration” issue seem like there’s some kind of objection based on racism, rather than no one wanting tens of millions of fighting age males coming over the border to unleash a crime wave, exactly as they’re doing.
I’m not worried about the cute kids and their Moms. Their Dads aren’t in any of the pictures, because they have MS-13 tattooed across their faces.