Immigration activists encouraging legal immigrants to apply for U.S. citizenship

Posted on: May 11th, 2006
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“Juana Elba Benitez is studying for the U.S. citizenship test she failed eight years ago an exam the 75-year-old native of El Salvador swore she would never take again.

Then she learned that Congress was debating a crackdown on illegal immigrants, and Benitez worried that legal residents like her might be next. So she is memorizing the first 13 states and who said “Give me liberty or give me death,” all to be able to vote.”

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