Jun 28
LOS ANGELES — A 102-year-old Filipino man who came to California as a teenager in 1928 to pick lettuce and cabbage became an American citizen during a touching naturalization ceremony Wednesday at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
“I’m happy,” Philippines-born immigrant Joaquin Arciago Guzman said in Tagalog after Wednesday’s ceremony, where about 7,300 joined him in taking the citizenship oath.
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