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Viewfinder: New United States Citizens Recite the National Anthem

Author:: Pacific Standard Staff
Publish date:: Jul 5, 2018

New United States citizen Mosammat Rasheda Akter, originally Bangladesh, holds her seven-month-old daughter Fahmida as she sings the U.S. National Anthem during naturalization ceremony at the New York Public Library on July 3rd, 2018, in New York City. Two hundred immigrants from 50 countries became citizens during the ceremony.
(Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

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