Beneath a large white tent in a sunny Long Island meadow, families hailing from 24 different countries gathered together, wearing smiles on their faces and holding small American flags in their hands. “The process to become a United States citizen is not easy,” says United States District Judge Nusrat Choudhury on Wednesday, July 1. Just minutes earlier, 52 people in the audience had become naturalized U.S. citizens. Families gather under a pavi…