Becoming a citizen
By Matthew Hoy on June 2, 2006
This is sappy, and pretty ridiculous.
Dressed in a brightly colored muumuu and sunflower hat, 100-year-old Maria Soledad Sarabia Lagareta held her cane in her left hand and raised her right hand as she took an oath to become a U.S. citizen in federal court yesterday.
She's been in the United states far longer than I have been alive, yet...
"I was born in Mexico but I am an American," Lagareta's 61-year-old son Roland translated for her after the naturalization ceremony. "I wanted to be able to vote (in this country) before I die."
She still hasn't learned the language?
Only in America.
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She still hasn’t learned the language?
Look around you - Billboard advertisements in Spanish, Spanish options on phone trees, Spanish options on ATMs, etc etc.
Quite frankly, there really isn't any reason to.