Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York City, New York, to participate in a ceremony unveiling plans for a major Museum expansion--known as The Peopling of America Center, funded by the National Park Service along with the Bank of America Charitable Foundation and the Annenberg Foundation--and to observe a naturalization ceremony, for 12 new Americans, under the direction of the Citizenship and Immigration Service. Among dignitaries joining Secretary Kempthorne at the event for The Peopling of America Center were Statue of Liberty and Ellis Isla

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Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York City, New York, to participate in a ceremony unveiling plans for a major Museum expansion--known as The Peopling of America Center, funded by the National Park Service along with the Bank of America Charitable Foundation and the Annenberg Foundation--and to observe a naturalization ceremony, for 12 new Americans, under the direction of the Citizenship and Immigration Service. Among dignitaries joining Secretary Kempthorne at the event for The Peopling of America Center were Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island National Monument Superintendent Cynthia Garrett, Annenberg Foundation Senior Program Officer Gillian Norris-Szanto, Bank of America Charitable Foundation President Andrew Plepler, and Ellis Island Foundation President and Chief Executive Officer Stephen Briganti.

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