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New Americans Welcomed

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Tarig Hassan, with his wife and daughter, Alaa Saeed and Dannah Hassan.

Waving small flags, and with their proud families looking on, 44 people have become US citizens. 

As Herb Trix reports, during the Friday naturalization ceremony in a federal courtroom in Davenport, they took the oath of allegiance, recited the pledge of allegiance, and were welcomed by local officials.

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.