150 people from 50 countries become US citizens at Mount Vernon on America’s 250th birthday0

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• July 5, 2026

Mount Vernon, Virginia.- People about to become American citizens sat in folding chairs on George Washington’s lawn at Mount Vernon on Saturday, 250 years after the Declaration of Independence. The sun was beating down and the well-dressed audience was a flutter of paddle tennis fans emblazoned with American flags. Their families clung to the shade