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New White House Campaign Will Encourage Legal Immigrants to Become Citizens

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mystery-ak:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/18/us/white-house-campaign-legal-immigrants-citizenship.html?_r=0

New White House Campaign Will Encourage Legal Immigrants to Become Citizens

By JULIA PRESTONSEPT. 17, 2015

White House officials announced the start of a nationwide campaign on Thursday to encourage legal immigrants to become American citizens, which could add millions of voters to the electorate in time for the presidential election next year.

With about 8.8 million legal residents in the country who are eligible to become citizens, White House officials said they were trying to make it easier to complete the final steps to citizenship. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency in charge of naturalizations, will offer practice tests on cellphones for the civics exam that immigrants must pass, but which many find daunting, and will hold preparatory workshops in rural areas. Applicants will also be able to pay the fee — still a hefty $680 — with a credit card.

The White House is working with regional immigrant groups to organize more than 70 citizenship workshops and about 200 naturalization ceremonies in the coming week alone. Four citizenship ambassadors have been named, including Fernando Valenzuela, the Mexican-born former pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers who recently became an American citizen after many years in the United States.

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flowers:
Not 8mil, more like 37mil. Just in time for the election, shocking :smokin:

Oceander:
Legal immigrants are not quite as beholden to, or enslaved to, liberals or the DNC.

Carling:

--- Quote from: Oceander on September 18, 2015, 03:00:32 am ---Legal immigrants are not quite as beholden to, or enslaved to, liberals or the DNC.

--- End quote ---

Yep, which has me wondering what's in it for the Dems.  Although it may be as simple as legal immigrants aren't exactly thrilled that illegals are jumping in front of them in line for the honeypot.

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