Hispanic immigrants pursue the promise of prosperity and freedom while struggling with issues of assimilation and citizenship. Kingston, North Carolina

“Celia Macias has lived as a stranger most of her life.

At 45, she is a Mexican citizen but a legal resident of the United States and a follower of the American dream.

“It’s true, we are strangers there and strangers here, but we are at home in both,” Celia said on a night in May, one of several times over the past four months that she visited with a reporter in her Lenoir County home. “When I go home, I feel Mexican. When I come back here, I feel a part of America.””

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