At the welcome center for Saguaro National Park West on Wednesday
morning, more than a dozen people from nearly as many countries faced
the scenery of the Sonoran Desert and achieved a long-sought dream:
becoming U.S. citizens.

Hailing from Algeria, Belgium, Botswana,
Brazil, Canada, Columbia, Congo, Egypt, India, Jamaica, South Korea,
Lebanon, Liberia, Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua, Philippines, Russia, Spain,
Taiwan, the United Kingdom and Vietnam, the 25 new Americans took their
oaths of citizenship at the visitors center in the Tucson Mountain
District on Thursday morning.

“As this room so wonderfully demonstrates, we are a nation of
immigrants,” said U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce G. Macdonald, who presided
over the ceremony — the 12th such event held at the national park in
partnership with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

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