cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40346519

Ryan Murphy
from Indianapolis Star
Dec. 10, 2025, 6:20 a.m. ET

As people made their way into the Indianapolis Union Station for a naturalization ceremony, federal officials stopped certain applicants and told them that they wouldn’t be leaving the building with U.S. citizenship.

The immigrants — who had already passed every step in the long naturalization process — needed only to take the oath of allegiance Dec. 9, 2025, to become citizens. A federal directive handed down by U.S. Immigration and Customs Services on Dec. 2, however, made that impossible for more than one third of people signed up for the Indianapolis ceremony.

Zhibo Zhao, a US Citizenship and Immigration Services official present at the event, said oaths of allegiance for 38 of the 100 participants were “canceled.”

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    USA is indoctrinating their population and children to be fanatic religious nationalists, with oath of allegiance which doesn’t exist in civilized countries, and prayers in schools and public meetings, contrary to the ideal of separation of state and religion. Also something unheard of in more civilized countries, that doesn’t even have a fundamental rule about separating state and religion, but are still doing a hundred times better job at actually doing it!

    USA is an insane country of double standards, uneducated superstition and sociopathy. I can’t even begin to imagine the hell hole it must be for sane people to live there!

    Last part of this bullshit oath:

    I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.

    Freely? God? WTF is this? The congregation of the insane? Absolutely disgusting 🤮🤮🤮
    What an absolute shit country!