I dedicate this to my teacher, Ms. Syvertsen, and my family.

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Hello I am Claire Risler and this is my citizenship scrapbook. I am a citizen of the United States Of America. As a citizen we all have our rights that we can express freely. I practice my freedom of religion with this right I get to choose my religion. I also can express the right to speak freely by saying what I want to say, but it is my responsibility to do so appropriately. I can also petition the government without threatening them, and I can write and publish anything I want (within reason of course) and I can read anything I want. When I become the age I have the right to bear arms without hurting any one. It is my responsibility to be a jury if I am called to when I´m older, and when I´m older I have to vote. Once I get a job and live on my own I have to pay taxes. I have a responsibility to do my homework for school.

Now lets move on to how you can become a citizen. There are many ways to become a citizen. One way is to be born in America or if your parent/s were born in America. Another way is if you migrate or emigrate to America and go through a process called naturalization. To do so you have to live in America for five years. You also have to speak English, have a good character, and pass a civics test and an interview, finally you have to take the Oath of Allegiance . I was born in America so that automatically makes me become a citizen. Over the centuries citizenship has opened to people of all races. Which reminds me about something called Immigration. Lets go to the next page.

Welcome to America!!!!!!

Lets jump over to immigration now. Right now there is a immigration trend of 13.2% in U.S. From a current study most of these come from Mexico. Some reasons that people come is because the agriculture is bad, family, friends, or financial needs or work. Some reasons that people stay is because of wars in other countries, no jobs available, economy problems, etc. Yet all the same there is a thing called emigration where people are forced out of their countries by leaders or problems that would harm them. That's all for immigration, folks!