Becoming an American citizen in the age of Trump
by By Namwali Serpell, Los Angeles Times
Sep 26, 2017
3 minutes
I felt my first real twinge of regret about not being a U.S. citizen in 2008, when Barack Obama was elected president.
An American university where my father once worked as a professor had helped secure green cards for my whole family, in 1992. (I was 11 at the time.) I had renewed my green card twice since then. People often asked why I hadn't applied for citizenship. This is the life I'm used to, I'd say: smugly returning jury notices, watching elections from a
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