NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: A new road to citizenship in Detroit

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This piece from U.S. Courts News just hit my inbox this morning about how Detroit residents who are ready to become U.S. citizens are being sworn in at drive-thru naturalization ceremonies to maintain COVID-19 social distancing — a fitting way to do it in the Motor City. This month in Detroit, federal district and magistrate judges began swearing in new citizens in drive-thru ceremonies in a parking structure at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office. Citizens-to-be drive into the parking structure, are checked in by USCIS employees clad in protective gear, and then roll up to a podium where a federal judge swears them in  all without ever leaving their vehicles. The new process eliminates the need for people to gather for indoor ceremonies.