Rushing to Become Citizens After Anti-Immigrant Talk

NPR

Published February 19, 2016 at 4:49 PM EST

Many immigrants in the U.S. are working to become citizens so that they can vote. Congressman Luis Gutierrez and a coalition of immigrant rights groups are working to naturalize 1 million people.

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