Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Janet Napolitano visits Fenway Park for citizens’ oath

More than 5,000 new citizens were sworn in at one time! Let's hope they all are voting in November, they should help get immigration reform going. - - Donna Poisl

By Associated Press

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano welcomed more than 5,000 new citizens in a ceremony Tuesday at Boston’s Fenway Park [map], in what officials called one of the largest naturalization ceremonies in the nation’s history.

Speaking to immigrants from roughly 150 countries, Napolitano congratulated the new citizens for their "long journey" toward citizenship but told them that they now faced new civic responsibilities as Americans.
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