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Coming to America

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.


Comments (3)

What's the "USSR" doing on this list? It doesn't exist anymore, and hasn't for over 15 years.

Posted by Ben | February 6, 2009 9:01 AM


No Eritreans, Guatemalans, Salvadorans or Tigreans? How odd! And what's with the USSR making the list? They haven't been around since 1991!

Posted by Mark Gisleson | February 6, 2009 3:31 PM


The USSR is on the list because that's the country someone left.

Posted by Bob Collins | February 6, 2009 5:08 PM


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