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On this Fourth of July, 14,000 immigrants become US citizens

By Christopher Carbone | Fox News

New US citizens take the Oath of Citizenship

200 immigrants become naturalized citizens during an annual Independence Day naturalization ceremony at the New York Public Library.


On this Independence Day, naturalization ceremonies will turn 14,000 immigrants into proud new American citizens.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will welcome them in about 175 ceremonies across the country on the Fourth of July, according to the American Immigration Council.

Despite the Trump administration’s controversial travel ban and rhetoric regarding immigrants, a total of 163,000 people have been naturalized during fiscal year 2018 — a 55 percent increase from the same time last year.


Mosammat Rasheda Akter, center, of Bangladesh, holds her seven-month-old daughter Fahmida during a naturalization ceremony, Tuesday, July 3, 2018, at the New York Public Library's Celeste Bartos Forum. (AP)


At a naturalization ceremony in New Hampshire, 102 people hailing from 48 different countries became citizens before an audience that included the state’s two senators, Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan, and Gov. Chris Sununu.

In New York, Karina Borbon, who arrived in the U.S. from the Dominican Republic ten years ago, explained how it felt to realize her dream.

“I am so excited…It was a long journey but finally, I did it,” Borbon, 32, told the New York Daily News. “Now I have become a part of the nation. I want to help my community and help the people become citizens, too.”


Hazera Khanom of Bangladesh listens during a naturalization ceremony, Tuesday, July 3, 2018, at the New York Public Library. (AP)


Nusrat Zaman, who was born in Bangladesh and now lives in the Bronx, told the Daily News it was hard to leave her home country and her friends behind.

“New York is so easy to handle, you can go everywhere…You can study here, you can (get) financial aid. In Bangladesh, you have to pay a lot of money (to study),” Zaman, 25, who is studying at LaGuardia Community College and hoping to pursue a career in health administration, told the New York newspaper.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/07/04...-citizens.html

No more immigration and NO more citizenship!

GO DIVERSIFY OTHER COUNTRIES...WE ARE FULL UP AND FED UP!

Damn it! We the citizens of the US say we have enough immigrants and refugees. This is our country and we should have the final say about how many people we want to allow in our country. The President and the Congress are supposed to represent our wishes, not a bunch of foreigners!

MR PRESIDENT.
ARE YOU LOOKING AT THIS POST . WELL THIS IS NOT RIGHT WE ARE FED UP NO MORE & THIS IS FOR OTHER COUNTRY AS WELL . WE AMERICA ARE FED UP

Citizenship Applications in the U.S. Surge as Immigration Talk ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/us/citizenship-applications-immigration.html
Oct 27, 2017 - About 8.8 million people are eligible to become American citizens, meaning they have been lawful permanent residents, or had a green card, for at least five years . . .
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In the last decade, an average of 700,000 people a year became naturalized citizens of the United States. That's roughly one each year for every 500 U.S residents, or one every 79 seconds . . .

How much do you know about US immigrants? - Global Public Square

In the first three quarters of the 2017 fiscal year — from Oct. 1, 2016, through June 30, the latest period for which data is available — 783,330 people filed applications,

compared with the 725,925 who filed during the same months a year earlier. The current figure is well on pace to surpass the 971,242 who applied in the 2016 fiscal year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/u...migration.html

SEND ALL THEIR APPLICATIONS TO CHINA, JAPAN, RUSSIA, MEXICO, EL SALVADOR, HONDURAS, GUATEMALA, BRAZIL, AUSTRIALIA, NORWAY!

WE DON'T WANT THEM! GO DIVERSIFY THESE COUNTRIES.

8.8 million people are eligible to become American citizens NOW

We need Tom Cotton's RAISE ACT which cuts legal green card immigration by almost 50%. Citizenship eligibility comes from green cards. VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2018!!