{"id":235614,"date":"2025-09-18T05:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/235614\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T05:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:29:13","slug":"fifty-new-u-s-citizens-take-oath-in-local-ceremony-celebrating-citizenship-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/235614\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty new U.S. citizens take oath in local ceremony celebrating Citizenship Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Fifty individuals from 23 different countries celebrated a significant milestone at San Antonio&#8217;s City Hall as they took the oath to become naturalized U.S. citizens. <\/p>\n<p>The ceremony, presided over by U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Chestney, marked the official transition for these new citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones addressed the group, which included individuals from countries such as Afghanistan, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Honduras, India, Israel, and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The event coincided with Constitution Day, commemorating the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787, offering a moment for reflection on the rights and freedoms associated with U.S. citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Luis Nente, one of the new citizens, expressed his gratitude, saying, &#8220;The right to freedom, the right to have everything, my family, everybody&#8217;s here so it&#8217;s a privilege to be a citizen here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new citizens expressed pride in their accomplishment and readiness to live and work in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Fifty individuals from 23 different countries celebrated a significant milestone at San Antonio&#8217;s City Hall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":235615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,126593,126595,21469,126594,18360,126596,7202,7203,358,3187,123953,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-235614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-citizenship-day","10":"tag-judge-elizabeth-chestney","11":"tag-mayor-gina-ortiz-jones","12":"tag-naturalized-citizens","13":"tag-oath","14":"tag-rights-and-freedoms","15":"tag-san-antonio","16":"tag-sanantonio","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-u-s-constitution","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}