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Why would his mother and grandmother be so obsessed with making him a US citizen?

Dunno. Why do very pregnant Guatemalan women waddle miles across the desert for a chance to make their child an American?

Maybe they value American citizenship?

If I were mean spirited I'd assume that you needed to ask the question because you don't.

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I am asking about their motives in 1961, before we became the medicaid capital of the world. And it was different back then.