Posted at 12:24 PM on February 5, 2009
by Bob Collins
(3 Comments)
Filed under: Life
About 400 immigrants became U.S. citizens today in a ceremony at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul. They came from Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chile, China, Colombia, Cote D'Ivoire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Liberia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Sudan, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, The Gambia, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USSR, Vietnam, and Yemen.
Tom Crann will have some of their stories this afternoon on MPR's All Things Considered.
What's the "USSR" doing on this list? It doesn't exist anymore, and hasn't for over 15 years.
No Eritreans, Guatemalans, Salvadorans or Tigreans? How odd! And what's with the USSR making the list? They haven't been around since 1991!
The USSR is on the list because that's the country someone left.
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