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MANY BECOME CITIZENS ON JULY FOURTH
Eighty-four people were sworn in as US citizens at the annual Fourth of July naturalization ceremony held at Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson.  The people were addressed by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, herself an immigrant from Czechoslovakia.  She came to the US at age 11 with her parents, fleeing the Stalinist rule of the country after World War Two.

Addressing the crowd, Albright spoke of her own fears upon immigrating, saying “It never occurred to me that I would be Secretary of State and have Thomas Jefferson’s job.”  Jefferson was the first US Secretary of State.  Albright is the first Secretary of State to have addressed the annual ceremony.

Other naturalization ceremonies were held across the US on Independence Day.  One of the largest of these was in Detroit, Michigan, where the International Institute of Metropolitan Detroit hosted its third naturalization ceremony.  There, more than 850 people from 80 different countries were sworn in as US citizens.

Forty-three children who had been adopted by US parents were sworn in as citizens in Miami.  Almost 600 people were sworn in in Seattle, including about 65 adopted children. 
 
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