Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson (third from right) celebrates with new U.S. citizens after at a special naturalization ceremony on Monday for 50 candidates from 24 countries at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Johnson addressed the new citizens and distributed their certificates of citizenship during the ceremony that commemorated the 150th anniversary of the first naturalization in the Eastern District on Oct. 19, 1865.
The event included all of the Eastern District judges, magistrate judges and bankruptcy judges, some of whom are the children of immigrants. Second Circuit Chief Judge Robert Katzmann, far left, whose grandmother was naturalized in 1936 in the Eastern District, also addressed the attendees. Third from left is director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, León Rodríguez.
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