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00:41I came here when I was three years old. My parents were able to bring me here.
01:00A permanent resident is a resident of the United States, but you're still not quite there yet to be able
01:07to be a citizen.
01:09Just being a resident isn't enough. There's still a chance that for whatever reason, someday, if the laws change, I
01:15can get deported because I don't have that 100% legal status here.
01:21I'm a mom. I have a son of nine years old. My son is a citizen. I'm not. I'm afraid
01:28of, like, losing my status here if something goes wrong.
01:46Definitely the issue of anti-immigration has come up, and that has persuaded me even more to try to get
01:54my citizenship.
01:55El principal obstáculo para mí siempre fue el idioma. Habemos unos que lo logran muy pronto y otros que no.
02:20To become a citizen, the application process is $680, which can be very expensive for a lot of families, especially
02:28if it's more than one person trying to become a citizen.
02:32Muchos no tenemos suficiente dinero para hacer el pago. O muchas personas no sabemos el proceso que lleva la ciudadanía.
02:42You know, there's millions and millions of people applying for this. Not all of them get it.
02:47You know, doing all the paperwork, coming to talk to a lawyer, and then, you know, the whole citizenship process
02:52is definitely difficult.
02:53But one of my biggest dreams, become a citizen.
02:56Candidates for citizenship, will you please raise your right hand?
03:19That I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America.
03:25I think of it as the highest legal status or privilege that you have.
03:30Against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
03:33Against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
03:36The word citizen for me means you're going to take this country as yours.
03:43You're going to respect and follow the rules, and, you know, you just have to feel like it's yours.
03:49This is where you belong to, you know?
03:52I hereby declare that from this day forward, each of you is a citizen of the United States of America.
04:01It's all. It's all. It's something that I've just arrived here. I never thought I would achieve that. It's all
04:09for me.
04:10It's an honor to be able to obtain citizenship, which was on December 11, 2015.
04:18We have to reach our goal. What is our goal? A citizen. It's not going to be easy, but we
04:24have to do that.
04:27A citizen has the right constitutional rule to define the destiny of all this country of the United States.
04:38The day of tomorrow I will be able to choose my representatives
04:42at the level of the state, at the level of the city.
04:46The day of tomorrow I will be able to choose the president.
05:11The day of tomorrow I will be able to choose the president.
