The L.A. Times reports:
Omar Ibraham, dressed in a dark jacket and pants, heard his name called by the woman who would change his life forever.
He stood up and took a step forward. Ibraham could see the piece of paper she was holding — the one she had warned him just an hour earlier to never laminate. She said that would destroy its power.
Ibraham took a second step. His heart was pounding. Is this really happening? he wondered. He saw the powerful senator, wearing a crisp blue suit, smiling. There was the judge, unmistakable in his black robes, battling a cold. The mayor and a state senator stood beneath a basketball hoop in the gym. There were flags on the wall from dozens of countries. He had noticed earlier that Somalia wasn’t among them.
The 33-year-old Somalian kept walking. All eyes were on him. He was moments away from completing his years-long journey toward U.S. citizenship Friday. The official paper that would prove it was within his grasp. He’d always wanted to be a citizen of the United States, but in recent weeks, he had begun to wonder if the nation wanted him.
There's more:
On average since 2010, Citizenship and Immigration Services naturalizes 706,000 people a year in public ceremonies or through small procedures in courts. Mexico accounts for the largest volume of those becoming naturalized, followed by India and the Philippines. Of those countries named by Trump in the executive order, only Iraq and Iran cracked the top 20 for the number of people naturalized — a combined total of about 25,000 people in 2015, according to Homeland Security.
Ibraham might be happier somewhere else instead of christian America.
