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Padres welcome new US citizens at Wednesday’s game

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Padres welcome new US citizens at Wednesday’s game

Newly naturalized U.S. citizens leave the field and wave to cheering spectators at Petco Park on Wednesday, August 21. Photo by Hannah Ramirez. The San Diego Padres weren’t the only ones who went into Wednesday’s game against the Minnesota Twins expecting to win. After a years-long naturalization process, 50 immigrants from 25 different countries celebrated […]

“Fantastic as fiction”: Penny Wong on her rise to Australia’s top diplomat as an immigrant

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“Fantastic as fiction”: Penny Wong on her rise to Australia’s top diplomat as an immigrant

“There is no doubt that an Asian-Australian foreign minister sends a clear message to the region about modern Australia,” said Wong, who was born in Sabah in 1968. Wong’s mother is a native Australian and her father is originally from Malaysia. Penny Wong on a panel with former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans, also a […]