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Photo Gallery: Immigrants Become Citizens During Nationalization Ceremony at Lawnfield

People cap years of work by becoming U.S. citizens today during the nationalization ceremony at James A. Garfield National Historic Site

Thirty people from 20 different countries and four different continents gathered for their naturalization ceremony this morning in .

After years of work, the immigrants -- who came from Morocco, Belarus, Croatia, Canada and more -- became citizens of the United States.

U.S. District Court Judge William Baughman presided over what has become a biannual tradition at the national park.

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Rudolph Garfield, the great-grandson of President James Garfield, also spoke at the ceremony. He congratulated the new citizens and let them know that they were now members of "our family."


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