THEY BOUGHT INTO THE COUNTRY.

Now it's on the country to buy into its 300 newest citizens.

On March 19, 300 people from 66 countries gathered at the Coronado Performing Arts Center, 314 N. Main Street to attend their naturalization ceremony.

U.S. Magistrate of the Northern Illinois District Lisa Jensen, ASM Rockford General Manager Gretchen Gilmore and Rockford Mayor Tom McNamara took part in the welcome celebration.

“It was a lot of hard work, my mom played a big role,” U.S. citizen Nghi Quach says. “I tried a lot by myself and I’m proud I made it this far.”

Nghi notes the two-year journey was filled with sleepless nights and uncertainties, but her drive and support from her parents helped her become a U.S. citizen. Nghi says becoming an official U.S. citizen has built her confidence in applying herself in the workforce.

Good. Can we have an end to this loose talk about Democrats importing future voters to go on welfare?  Our mission remains as it always has been.  "The task for the living is to continue to give young people, including immigrants, a country they can buy into, as well as to buy into the success of those young people."  I wonder how long Ms Nghi had to wait to be able to file that petition for citizenship, before it took the bureaucrats two years to get around to approving it.  Or how prone she might be to vote for people who throw around "Great Replacement" notions.