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As part of the Homestead Act celebration, more than 60 new Americans have been sworn in at the Homestead National Monument of America in southeast Nebraska.

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Reporter: Associated Press

As part of the Homestead Act celebration, more than 60 new Americans have been sworn in at the Homestead National Monument of America in southeast Nebraska.

U.S. District Judge Richard presided over the naturalization ceremony on Wednesday.

Twenty-two-year-old Mina Hanna, who was raised in Egypt, told the Beatrice Daily Sun that U.S. citizenship "is another door that opens toward more endless opportunities that can present themselves."

The original four-page Homestead Act document went on display Wednesday. It's on loan from the National Archives in Washington in
celebration of the 150th anniversary of its signing.

The monument sits four miles west of Beatrice, in Gage County.