Amid the public outcry and the political rhetoric surrounding the issue of immigration, our Glendale immigration lawyers enjoyed seeing the report in the Glendale News Press about the thousands of immigrants who are becoming U.S. citizens.
A total of 3,340 Southern California residents packed the Los Angeles convention center earlier this month, where they took the oath and became U.S. citizens. A U.S. District Court judge administered the oath to the thousands in the crowd who hailed from more than 100 countries, including Mexico, Iraq, Armenia and Korea.
More than 100,000 candidates became naturalized citizens last year in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services District 23, which includes Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.
While our Los Angeles immigration attorneys enjoy hearing such success stories, the article made no mention of the enormous backlog of visa cases or the other impossible roadblocks that are too often in the way of the path to citizenship. Millions of hardworking immigrant families want nothing more than to enjoy similar celebration.
But until the federal government delivers on long-promised immigration reform, such ceremonies will be little more than window dressing covering the real issues.
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