UPDATE:Boston suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev became American Citizen on Sept. 11, 2012

[dixiegrrrrl]

So Says CBS news, which was picked up and tweeted by Anonymous..

That is interesting...

[haikugal]

1. These are American kids..

[ismnotwasm]

2. Yup

Been here for about a decade I read; since they were 9 and 10.

[onenote]

7. The dead brother was 26, the one on the run is 19.

The younger one apparently came here when he around 10, but the older one didn't come until later. Since the older one was already around 17 when the younger one got here, and he came later, I don't think you can say the older one grew up here.

Of course, the information I'm basing this one could change.

[avaistheone1]

15. Our Personality Is Fully Developed By the Age of 7

Many people know that a person's character and personality is largely established by the time they are very young. The traits that will define that individual throughout his or her life can be clearly identified when he or she is as little as 7 years old. In a new investigation, scientists show that, by the time they start going to school, children already exhibit the personality traits that will remain with them throughout their lives. This was clearly established in a new paper, written by experts at the University of California in Riverside (UCR), LiveScience reports.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Our-Personality-Is-Fully-Developed-By-the-Age-of-7-151093.shtml



If correct, then their strongest influences were formed before they were American kids.

[uponit7771]

16. +1

[City Lights]

3. Interesting is right. nt

[graham4anything]

4. Been here since 2002. Meaning been here for 10 years as a political refugee, seeking asylum

[LiberalFighter]

5. Did they become citizens through direct naturalizaton?

Or derivative?

[HipChick]

6. Direct...they don't have a US parent

as far as I know yet

[LiberalFighter]

17. From what I understand...

If the parents are naturalized the children indirectly are naturalized too. Don't know what the age is before they have to go through the process themselves.

[LisaL]

8. Sept 11?

I am guessing that date had a significance to them?

[NoPasaran]

14. The date possibly had significance to those who scheduled a naturalization ceremony

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. American kids, internal

[LisaL]

10. Seriously? They are not internal, they were not born in US.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. I wasn't either

Should I self deport?

No serious...

They grew up in the United States, they went to American schools and colleges.

[Dreamer Tatum]

12. What's your fucking point?

Do you really think we're going to bomb Chechnya now?

[pintobean]

13. Maybe they were interns.

[stranger81]

18. News yesterday confirmed Tsarnaev didn't get to choose his ceremony date.

They've been assigned by the government for several years now, so he didn't get to choose his own date.