With 1 in 5 Americans out of work, Obama issues over a million green cards

examiner.com ^ | April 11, 2010 | Dave Gibson

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A couple of things here.

First in line are my grandparents who came from Russia in 1911. They lived in America and so became Americans, they spoke english, dressed like Americans, and my grandpa became a US Citizen and did so proudly. Grandma had never learned to read or write in Russia as peasants did not get an education, but she could cook with the best, can meat and veggies and kept a house that was spotless.

Next is my son-in-law. Alan was born in Juarez, Mexico in 1988. He got his green card when he left an abusive mother for the US when he was 15. He put himself through high school in El Paso and then nursing school in Tulsa. He enlisted in the Army at 20 and is currently deployed with the 101st Airborne. He took the oath of citizenship at the US Embassy in Kuwait City last week. He proudly went back to his unit with his US ARMY name tape replaced with one that read US CITIZEN. Not only did he make time for becoming a citizen while defending us, he is taking college courses by correspondence so he can move from being a medic to becoming an RN and getting a commission.