Traffic downtown was at a crawl this morning as immigrants flooded the Los Angeles Convention Center to become citizens. ...

KFWB 980 radio reported this morning that some people had gotten out of vehicles near the Convention Center and were walking on freeway shoulders, apparently in an effort to get to their events on time.

If your regular route home follows the I-10/110 elbow around the Convention Center, be warned that freedom will ring (and honk and swear in no fewer than 50 languages) until around 4 p.m. today. Complicating matters further, nearly 2,000 more visitors were expected for a Herbalife conference in an adjoining LACC facility, unwittingly inspiring the company's single-biggest one-day recruitment and sales spike in its 28-year-history. What a country!

• Huge citizenship ceremony jams morning traffic in downtown L.A. [LAT]

From their press release:

Similar to the "Dating Game," one bachelorette (a U.S. citizen seeking a spouse) asks three bachelors (immigrants with temporary visas) various questions. Towards the end of the show, she decides which one she would marry.

According to the show's host, Angelo Gonzales, the show makes it clear to all contestants that it does not guarantee marriage or legal status, but will pay for a wedding party and honeymoon should a marriage result from the show.

To help potential production partners fully envision just how Marry might play out on American TVs, this promotional video was made, featuring dazzling full-motion graphics and shot in what appears to be an unoccupied Motel 6 conference room. We can only hope when—and we imagine it's a matter of when and not if—the show makes it to air, that the contestants don't find their hearts and dreams trampled, Brad Womack-style, by a cold-footed contestant who refuses to hand out the final Green Card to either of the remaining contestants.

• 'Who Wants to Marry a U.S. Citizen?' [markets.chron.com]
• hookacitizen.com