On Friday, a brilliant morning sun piercing their eyes, 125 Americans-to-be got ready to take the citizenship oath on Liberty Island…
A speaker, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, ennobled the event by going off script. He urged the citizens to engage in civic life, to push for immigration reform so the undocumented will “not live in the shadows of fear, but come into the sunlight.” He did not mention how badly the government has failed that job. He did not mention the elected officials, Republicans mostly, who have urged punishment without mercy on those who violate laws that they refuse to reform.
(Source: The New York Times)
