--- title: Hispanic Celebrities Gather for Naturalization Ceremony description: Singer Thalia and baseball player Mariano Rivera will be on hand as 100 immigrants take the oath of citizenship. canonical: https://time.com/4074118/people-en-espanol-naturalization/ author: Tanya Basu article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-15T16:24:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:48:13.657Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Hispanic Celebrities Gather for Naturalization Ceremony og:description: Stars who have protested Donald Trump will be on hand for festival og:url: https://time.com/4074118/people-en-espanol-naturalization/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b58c3936ea09229/6988685ee20a8730d8a8dc0d/pitbull.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: PlentiTogether LIVE - Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hispanic Celebrities Gather for Naturalization Ceremony twitter:description: Stars who have protested Donald Trump will be on hand for festival twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b58c3936ea09229/6988685ee20a8730d8a8dc0d/pitbull.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hispanic Celebrities Gather in New York for Major Naturalization Ceremony  by [Tanya Basu](/author/tanya-basu/)  ## Tanya Basu Oct 15, 2015 4:24 PM CUT  Artist Pitbull performs onstage in New York City, July 19, 2015. Artist Pitbull performs onstage in New York City, July 19, 2015.Michael Loccisano—Getty Images  by [Tanya Basu](/author/tanya-basu/)  ## Tanya Basu Oct 15, 2015 4:24 PM CUT Celebrities who have protested Donald Trump’s views on immigration will attend a festival in New York City on Oct. 17 and Oct. 18 where the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will host a naturalization ceremony for 100 new American citizens. Pitbull and Gloria Estefan will be on hand for the [PEOPLE en Español Festival ](http://www.peopleenespanol.com/festival "undefined")this weekend, the magazine’s annual event coinciding with [Hispanic Heritage Month](http://www.people.com/article/people-en-espanol-festival-2015-lineup-gloria-estefan-pitbull "undefined"). (PEOPLE en Español and TIME are both owned by Time Inc.) Many in the Latin American community have taken issue with Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s rhetoric and views on immigration. Estefan teamed up with her husband, Grammy Award-winning producer Emilio Estefan, and other performers like Carlos Santana, Thalia and Wyclef Jean, to release a celebratory, bilingual anthem in September called “We’re All Mexican.” “There’s a message being sent out to the world where people are giving opinions that are plain wrong,” Estefan, who is Cuban-American, [told _Billboard_](http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6692459/emilio-estefan-were-all-mexican-song-donald-trump-bigotry-shakira-gloria-estefan-carlos-santana "undefined"). “We need to lift up our pride and show the world what we’re doing.” Fellow Festival participant Pitbull has also attacked Trump’s rhetoric, asking other presidential candidates to _ponte las pilas_, or “Step it up,” in July, [CNNPolitics reported](http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/17/politics/pitbull-donald-trump-el-chapo/ "undefined"). The naturalization ceremony will be held at 11:30 am on Sunday at Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Singer Thalia and baseball player Mariano Rivera will attend the naturalization ceremony. Other attendees at the festival include Broadway legend Rita Moreno and [_Orange is the New Black_ actress Dascha Polanco ](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/14/dascha-polanco-orange-new-black-people-en-espanol-festival "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4074118/people-en-espanol-naturalization/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4074118/people-en-espanol-naturalization/"},"headline":"Hispanic Celebrities Gather in New York for Major Naturalization Ceremony","datePublished":"2015-10-15T16:24:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:48:13.657Z","description":"Stars who have protested Donald Trump will be on hand for festival","url":"https://time.com/4074118/people-en-espanol-naturalization/","keywords":["Immigration","Hillary Clinton","Mexico","Pitbull","hispanics","jeb bush","Donald Trump","citizenship"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b58c3936ea09229/6988685ee20a8730d8a8dc0d/pitbull.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tanya Basu","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tanya-basu/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b58c3936ea09229/6988685ee20a8730d8a8dc0d/pitbull.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"PlentiTogether LIVE - Show","caption":"PlentiTogether LIVE - Show","creditText":"Michael Loccisano—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/immigration/","name":"Immigration"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4074118/people-en-espanol-naturalization/","name":"Hispanic Celebrities Gather in New York for Major Naturalization Ceremony"}}]}] ```