New citizens in San Diego


	New citizens in San Diego

mickfinn

11-15-2007 10:42 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8463f2e8-a3c2-4b47-b920-2f53ec058307/C17FC055-2C50-4ED7-9684-DF2D12FE72B9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/foreign/tobyharnden/november07/americaday10.htm" href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/foreign/tobyharnden/november07/americaday10.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/foreign/tobyharnden/november07/americaday10.htm"><P><STRONG><A title="Crossing America (opens new browser window)" target="_blank" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/exclusions/uselection/nosplit/crossing/crossing.xml">Crossing America: full coverage<BR /></A></STRONG>Just arrived in Seattle. Attended an intensely moving event in San Diego yesterday – a ceremony in which 1,591 people from 89 different countries were sworn in as United States citizens. It was one of the most fascinating things I’ve covered in nearly six years of reporting in this country and I would urge anyone who ever gets the chance (they are public) to go to one.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/foreign/tobyharnden/november07/americaday10.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.telegraph.co.uk/img/C5B0E899-1D41-46F1-844D-1F7383018FB4" alt="New citizens pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/foreign/tobyharnden/november07/americaday10.htm"><P>The list of countries is testimony to the richness of America’s variety and its continuing status as a country of immigrants. Judge Luis Vargas, who presided over the ceremony said that it was not true that the US was a “melting pot”. Rather it was a “tossed salad” in which “we are all artichokes and radishes and onion and olives and different lettuces all tossed and combined together with the right seasoning”.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/foreign/tobyharnden/november07/americaday10.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.telegraph.co.uk/img/6A7D618B-A3D4-47EF-AC78-279AA6EB8EEF" alt="Some of those gaining citizenship at the Naturalization Ceremony" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/foreign/tobyharnden/november07/americaday10.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.telegraph.co.uk/img/A498D0AC-D095-4DF0-82F1-1FB5E3C90E14" alt="New immigrant, Sarah Thomas from Dorset, England at the Naturalization Ceremony" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/foreign/tobyharnden/november07/americaday10.htm"><STRONG>British immigrant Sarah Thomas waves the flag</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/foreign/tobyharnden/november07/americaday10.htm"><P>My colleague Julian Simmonds is producing a video of the event which should be on-line in the next 24 or 48 hours. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C17FC055-2C50-4ED7-9684-DF2D12FE72B9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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