New York Times:
By Andrew Siddons
July 4, 2014
WASHINGTON
— President Obama presided over a naturalization ceremony at the White
House on Friday for 25 members of the military and their spouses, the
second time he
has spent the Fourth of July with new United States citizens.
The
new Americans included natives of China, Germany, Guatemala, Kenya and
the Philippines, and all of them had already put in years of service to
the United States.
“The
basic idea of welcoming immigrants to our shores is central to our way
of life; it is in our DNA,” Mr. Obama said at the ceremony.
He
used the occasion to reiterate that he would bypass Congress and use
his executive powers to change the nation’s immigration system, a plan
he initially announced Monday.
“If
we want to keep attracting the best and brightest from beyond our
borders, we’re going to have to fix our immigration system, which is
broken, and pass common-sense
immigration reform,” he said.
The
naturalization oath was administered by Alejandro Mayorkas, the deputy
secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, who previously served
as its director for
citizenship and immigration services. Mr. Mayorkas, who was born in
Cuba, is a naturalized citizen himself.
Mr.
Obama and his family spent the rest of the Fourth of July hosting
military families at the White House for a barbecue and giving them a
one-of-a-kind view of the capital’s
fireworks.
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