News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

More Legal Immigrants Seek Citizenship

By PETER PRENGAMAN
Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 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.

"Every day the laws are getting more rigid," says Benitez, poring over an American history study guide alongside about 40 students at a social services center for Hispanic immigrants. "I'm afraid that one day they might say, `A green card isn't good enough. Whoever isn't a citizen is out of here.'"

Citizenship applications among legal immigrants are up nearly 20 percent over last year.

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